Prolapse surgery outcomes compared in nursing home residents, community-dwelling adults
Anne M. Suskind, MD, MS, discusses the findings of the recent study, published in Urology.
In this interview, Anne M. Suskind, MD, MS, discusses a recent Journal of Urology study in which she and her co-authors compared outcomes for pelvic organ prolapse surgery in nursing home residents and community-dwelling older adults. Suskind is associate professor of urology at the University of California San Francisco.
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