“The rates of testing declined slightly, about 2 absolute percentage points, over the study interval, despite the introduction of guidelines recommending it during the study period,” says Ryan Hsi, MD, FACS.
In this interview, Ryan Hsi, MD, FACS, discusses key findings from his recent study, “Specialist care, metabolic testing, and testing completeness among U.S. veterans with urinary stone disease”. Hsi is an associate professor of urology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
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