Kidney stone population management program yields several benefits
Reza Z. Goharderakhshan, MD, discusses how patient compliance for recommended studies increased from less than 10% to 82% following implementation of the program.
In this interview, Reza Z. Goharderakhshan, MD, discusses findings from the recent Urology Practice study, “Population management approach to kidney stone care improves patient compliance to preventive measures and reduces resource utilization in patients at high risk for stone recurrence,” for which he served as a study author. Goharderakhshan is a urologist at Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Pasadena.
More videos:
Patient counseling for mesh mid-urethral sling surgery: Provide options, set expectations
How complications for mesh mid-urethral sling surgery affect patients
Group-based pelvic floor muscle training is noninferior to PFMT
Alkaline water unlikely to prevent kidney stones, study finds
January 11th 2024"While alkaline water products have a higher pH than regular water, they have a negligible alkali content–which suggests that they can't raise urine pH enough to affect the development of kidney and other urinary stones," says Roshan M. Patel, MD.
