@Article{,
AUTHOR = {Andrew Salner, Ilene Staff, Rene I. Jahiel, Keith M. Bellizzi, Alison Champagne, Joseph Tortora, Alison G. Wong, Tara McLaughlin, Joseph Wagner},
TITLE = {Return to work after robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy versus radical retro-pubic prostatectomy},
JOURNAL = {Canadian Journal of Urology},
VOLUME = {26},
YEAR = {2019},
NUMBER = {2},
PAGES = {9708--9714},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/CJU/v26n2/60656},
ISSN = {1488-5581},
ABSTRACT = {<b>Introduction:</b> We compared the return-to-work interval (RTWI) after radical retro-pubic prostatectomy (RRP) and robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) in men being treated for early-stage prostate cancer.<br/>
<b>Materials and methods:</b> We mailed a 28-item questionnaire to a random sample of 2,696 patients who either had RRP from 1995 to 2004 or RALP from 2004 to 2011.<br/>
<b>Results:</b> We received analyzable questionnaires from 315 patients; 178 had RALP and 137 had RRP. The median RTWI was shorter in the RALP group than in the RRP group (3 versus 4 weeks, p = .016). The percent of subjects who had not returned to work 4 weeks after surgery was 23.6% for RALP and 38.2% for RRP (p = .010). In multivariate regression analysis, surgical approach was a significant predictor of RTWI independent of other social/clinical variables that were associated with either surgical approach or RTWI (p = .014).<br/>
<b>Conclusion:</b> Our data support a shortening of RTWI by RALP.},
DOI = {}
}