Publications
Publications
Over 100 manuscripts published since the program's inception in 2012
Prostate
Reducing Biopsy-Related Complications and Optimizing Repeat Biopsy Practice Patterns
- Infection Related Hospitalizations after Prostate Biopsy in a Statewide Quality Improvement Collaborative (Journal of Urology, June 2014)
- Variation in Prostate Cancer Detection Rates in a Statewide Quality Improvement Collaborative (Journal of Urology, August 2014)
- A Statewide Intervention to Reduce Hospitalizations After Prostate Biopsy (Journal of Urology, 2015)
- Understanding the Use of Prostate Biopsy Among Men with Limited Life Expectancy in a Statewide Quality Improvement Collaborative (European Urology, 2016)
- Repeat Prostate Biopsy Practice Patterns in a Statewide Quality Improvement Collaborative (Journal of Urology, 2017)
- Evaluation of a needle disinfectant technique to reduce infection-related hospitalisation after transrectal prostate biopsy (BJU International, 2018)
Optimizing Imaging Appropriateness
- Toward Better Use of Bone Scans Among Men with Early-stage Prostate Cancer (Urology, June 2014)
- Clinical Predictors and Recommendations for Staging Computed Tomography Scan Among Men With Prostate Cancer (Urology, Oct 2014)
- MUSIC: Patterns of Care in the Radiographic Staging of Men with Newly Diagnosed Low Risk Prostate Cancer (Journal of Urology, April 2015)
- A Statewide Intervention Improves Appropriate Imaging in Localized Prostate Cancer (Journal of Urology, 2017)
- Confirmatory Magnetic Resonance Imaging with or without Biopsy Impacts Decision Making in Newly Diagnosed Favorable Risk Prostate Cancer (Journal of Urology, 2019)
- Prospective Monitoring of Imaging Guideline Adherence by Physicians in a Surgical Collaborative: Comparison of Statistical Process Control Methods for Detecting Outlying Performance (BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, May, 2020)
- Do patients who undergo multiparametric MRI for prostate cancer benefit from additional staging imaging Results from a statewide collaborative (Urologic Oncology, January, 2020)
- Limitations of abdominopelvic CT and multiparametric MR imaging for detection of lymph node metastases prior to radical prostatectomy(World journal of Urology, April, 2020)
Enhancing Treatment Appropriateness
- Contemporary Use of Initial Active Surveillance Among Men in Michigan with Low-risk Prostate Cancer (European Urology, August 2014)
- Understanding the Performance of Active Surveillance Selection Criteria in Diverse Urology Practices (Journal of Urology, 2015)
- Factors Influencing Selection of Active Surveillance for Localized Prostate Cancer (Urology, 2015)
- Variation in Guideline Concordant Active Surveillance Follow-Up in Diverse Urology Practices (Journal of Urology, 2017)
- Appropriateness Criteria for Active Surveillance of Prostate Cancer (Journal of Urology, 2017)
- Practice- vs. Physician-Level Variation in Use of Active Surveillance for Men with Low-Risk Prostate Cancer (JAMA, 2017)
- A Roadmap for Improving the Management of Favorable Risk Prostate Cancer (Journal of Urology, 2017)
- Calculating Life Expectancy to Inform Prostate Cancer Screening and Treatment Decisions (British Journal of Urology International, 2017)
- Association Between Early Confirmatory Testing and the Adoption of Active Surveillance for Men With Favorable-risk Prostate Cancer
- Risk of Becoming Lost to Follow-up During Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer (European Urology, 2018)
- Clinical Utility of Gene Expression Classifiers in Men With Newly Diagnosed Prostate Cancer (JCO Precision Oncology, 2018)
- Pathological upgrading at radical prostatectomy for patients with Grade Group 1 prostate cancer: implications of confirmatory testing for patients considering active surveillance (BJU International, 2019)
- Overtreatment and underutilization of watchful waiting in men with limited life expectancy: an analysis of the Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative Registry (Urology, 2020)
- Defining Quality Metrics for Active Surveillance: The Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative Experience (Journal of Urology, 2020)
- Impact of Early Confirmatory Tests on Upgrading and Conversion to Treatment in Prostate Cancer Patients on Active Surveillance (Oncology, 2020)
- Implementation of Prostate Cancer Treatment Decision Aid in Michigan: A Qualitative Study (Implementation Science Communications, 2021)
- Delayed radical prostatectomy after a period of active surveillance is not associated with the use of secondary treatments compared with immediate prostatectomy(The Prostate, 2021)
- Radical prostatectomy for patients with high-risk, very-high risk, or radiographic suspicion for metastatic prostate cancer: perioperative and early oncologic results from the MUSIC statewide collaborative,(Urologic Oncology, 2022)
- The added influence of genomics and post-MRI confirmatory biopsy results to MRI results alone on medical decision making for men with favorable risk prostate cancer being considered for active surveillance(The Prostate, 2022)
- Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection at Radical Prostatectomy for Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer: Assessing Utility and Nodal Metastases Within a Statewide Quality Improvement Consortium(Oncology, 2022)
- Exploring Variation in the Receipt of Recommended Active Surveillance for Men with Favorable-Risk Prostate Cancer(Journal of Urology, 2022)
- The Impact of a Statewide Active Surveillance Initiative: A Roadmap for Increasing Active Surveillance Utilization Nationwide(European Urology, 2022)
- The Use and Short-Term Outcomes of Men with NCCN Favorable Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer Managed with Active Surveillance: The Initial MUSIC Experience (Journal of Urology, 2023)
- Variation in management of lymph node positive prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy within a statewide quality improvement consortium(Journal of Urologic Oncology , 2024)
- Application of the STRATCANS Criteria to the MUSIC Prostate Active Surveillance Cohort: A Step Towards Risk Stratified Active Surveillance(Cancers, 2025)
- Incidence and oncologic outcomes of patients with prostate-specific antigen persistence after radical prostatectomy (Cancer Journal, 2026)
Improving Radical Prostatectomy Patient Outcomes
- Measuring to Improve – Peer and Crowd-sourced Assessments of Technical Skill with RRP (European Urology, 2016)
- NOTES – Evaluating an Uncomplicated Recovery after RP (Journal of Urology, 2016)
- Variation in the use of postoperative radiotherapy among high-risk patients following RP (Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, 2016)
- Comparison of Pathological Outcomes for Men with Low Risk Prostate Cancer from Diverse Practice Settings (Journal of Urology, 2016)
- Comparison of Publicly Reported Surgical Outcomes with Quality Measures from a Statewide Improvement Collaborative (JAMA, 2016)
- Establishment of a Web-Based System for Collection of Patient-Reported Outcomes after RP (Urology, 2017)
- Development and Validation of Crosswalks for Patient-reported Sexual and Urinary Outcomes Between Commonly Used Instruments (European Urology,2018)
- Utilization of Salvage Radiation Therapy for Biochemical Recurrence After Radical Prostatectomy (International Journal of Radiation, Oncology, Biology, Physics, 2019)
- Regular vs. selective use of closed suction drains following robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: results from a regional quality improvement collaborative (Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, 2019)
- Pelvic lymph node dissection at robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: Assessing utilization and nodal metastases within a statewide quality improvement consortium(Urologic Oncology, 2020)
- Evaluation of patient- and surgeon-specific variation in patient reported urinary outcomes 3 months after radical prostatectomy from a statewide improvement collaborative (JAMA, 2020)
- Patient preferences and treatment decisions for prostate cancer Results from a statewide urological quality improvement collaborative (Health Services Research, 2021)
- Delayed radical prostatectomy after a period of active surveillance is not associated with the use of secondary treatments compared with immediate prostatectomy (The Prostate, 2021)
- Preoperative Prostate MRI Predictors of Urinary Continence Following Radical Prostatectomy (Radiology, 2022)
- Assessing the impact of decision aid use on post prostatectomy patient reported outcomes (Health Services Research, 2022)
- Recovery of Social Continence and Sexual Function in Men With High-risk Prostate Cancer After Radical Prostatectomy: Results From a Statewide Collaborative (Urology, June 2024)
- Opioid Prescribing Patterns and Post-prostatectomy Readmission: Data From a Statewide Quality Collaborative (Urology, June 2025)
General Quality Improvement Efforts
- Quality of Care in Urology and the Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative (Urology Practice, July 2014)
- Improvement in Clinical TNM Staging Documentation within a Prostate Cancer Quality Improvement Collaborative (Urology, April 2014)
- Collaborative Quality Improvement (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc, 2017)
- askMUSIC: Leveraging a Clinical Registry to Develop a New Machine Learning Model to Inform Patients of Prostate Cancer Treatments Chosen by Similar Men (European Urology, 2018)
- Grade Groups Provide Improved Predictions of Pathological and Early Oncologic Outcomes Compared with Gleason Score Risk Groups (Journal of Urology, 2019)
- Video review for measuring and improving skill in urological surgery (Nature Reviews Urology, 2019)
- Data Analytics for Optimal Detection of Metastatic Prostate Cancer (Operations Research, 2020)
- Defining Quality Metrics for Active Surveillance: The Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative Experience (Journal of Urology, 2021)
- Using video review to understand the technical variation of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in a statewide surgical collaborative (World Journal of Urology, 2019)
- Impact of Decipher Biopsy Testing on Clinical Outcomes in Localized Prostate Cancer in a Prospective Statewide Collaborative (European Association of Urology, 2021)
- Development and Validation of Models to Predict Pathologic Outcomes of Radical Prostatectomy in Regional and National Cohorts(European Association of Urology, 2018)
- Practice-Level Variation in the Decision to Biopsy Prostate Imaging-Reporting and Data System 3 Lesions in Favorable-Risk Prostate Cancer Patients(Oncology, 2022)
- Using video review to understand the technical variation of robot assisted radical prostatectomy in a statewide surgical collaborative (World Journal of Urology, 2020)
- Patient preferences and treatment decisions for prostate cancer: Results from a statewide urological quality improvement collaborative General(Health Services Research, 2021)
- Practice-Level Variation in the Decision to Biopsy Prostate Imaging-Reporting and Data System 3 Lesions in Favorable-Risk Prostate Cancer Patients (Oncology, 2022)
- Less is More: Fulfillment of Opioid Prescriptions Before and After Implementation of a Modifier 22 Based Quality Incentive for Opioid Free Vasectomies(Health Services Research, 2022)
- Intra-practice Urologist-level Variation in Targeted Fusion Biopsy Outcomes(Oncology , 2023)
- Patient perspectives on factors influencing active surveillance adherence for low-risk prostate cancer: A qualitative Study(Cancer Medicine , 2023)
- Urologist and radiologist contributions to variations in prostate cancer detection at fusion biopsy(BJU International , 2026)
ROCKS
Patient Experience, and Health-related Quality of Life
Ureteral Stent Omission
- What Is the Optimal Stenting Duration After Ureteroscopy and Stone Intervention? Impact of Dwell Time on Postoperative Emergency Department Visits (Journal of Urology, 2023)
- Stent Omission in Pre-stented Patients Undergoing Ureteroscopy Decreases Unplanned Health Care Utilization (Urology Practice, 2023)
- Appropriateness Criteria for Ureteral Stent Omission Following Ureteroscopy for Urinary Stone Disease (Urology Practice, 2022)
Quality Improvement Initiatives
- Improving the Quality of Upper Urinary Tract Stone Surgery: External Validation of a Statewide Collaborative's Efforts to Reduce Emergency Department Visits After Ureteroscopy (The Journal of Urology, 2023)
- Opioid-Free Discharge is Not Associated With Increased Unplanned Healthcare Encounters After Ureteroscopy: Results From a Statewide Quality Improvement Collaborative (Urology, 2021)
Procedural Strategies and Decision Support
Clinical Outcomes and Complications
- Infection-related hospitalization following ureteroscopic stone treatment: Results from a surgical collaborative (BMC Urology, 2020)
- Ureteroscopy in patients taking anti-coagulant or anti-platelet therapy: practice patterns and outcomes in a surgical collaborative (Journal of Urology, 2020)
- Ureteral Stent Placement following Ureteroscopy Increases Emergency Department Visits in a Statewide Surgical Collaborative (Journal of Urology, 2021)
- Real-world Practice Stone-free Rates After Ureteroscopy: Variation and Outcomes in a Surgical Collaborative (European urology focus, 2023)
- Variable Use of Postoperative Imaging Following Ureteroscopy: Results from a Statewide Quality Improvement Collaborative (Urology, 2020)
- Practice patterns and outcomes of urgent versus emergent ureteroscopy in a statewide surgical collaborative (World Journal of Urology, 2022)
- Variation and Correlation in Postoperative Imaging After Shockwave Lithotripsy and Ureteroscopy by Treatment Modality: Results of a Statewide Clinical Registry (Urology, 2022)
- Understanding ureteral access sheath use within a statewide collaborative and its effect on surgical and clinical outcomes (Journal of Endourology, 2020)
- Kidney Stone Care and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities (Journal of Urology, 2020)
- Shockwave Lithotripsy Use in the State of Michigan: American Urological Association Guideline Adherence and Clinical Implications (Urology, 2020)
- Ureteroscopy vs Shockwave Lithotripsy for Lower Pole Renal Stones: Treatment Variation and Outcomes in a Surgical Collaborative (Journal of Urology, 2025)
KIDNEY
Improving Quality of Care for T1 Renal Masses
- Quality of Care for Renal Masses: The Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative-Kidney Mass: Identifying and Defining Necessary Evaluation and Therapy (MUSIC-KIDNEY) (Urology Practice, 2020)
- Partial nephrectomy should be classified as an inpatient procedure: Results from a statewide quality improvement collaborative (Urologic Oncology, January, 2021)
Renal Mass Biopsy
- Utilization of Renal Mass Biopsy for T1 Renal Lesions across Michigan: Results from MUSIC-KIDNEY, A Statewide Quality Improvement Collaborative (European Association of Urology, June, 2021)
- Perspectives on the Role of Biopsy for Management of T1 Renal Masses: Survey Results From Two Regional Quality Improvement Collaboratives (Adult Urology, 2022)
- Renal Mass Biopsy Is Associated With Fewer Radical Nephrectomies for Benign or Indolent Disease, Particularly for T1b Renal Masses (Urology Practice, 2025)
Adherence to Guidelines for T1 Renal Masses
Decision making around management
- Initial Management of Indeterminate Renal Lesions in a Statewide Collaborative: A MUSIC-KIDNEY Analysis (The Journal of Urology, 2023)
- Utilization of a Virtual Tumor Board for the Care of Patients With Renal Masses: Experience From a Quality Improvement Collaborative (Urology Practice, 2023)
- Development and validation of a multicenter Cox regression model to predict all-cause mortality in patients with renal masses suspicious for renal cancer (Urologic Oncology, 2024)
Active Surveillance/Observation of T1 Renal Masses
- Initial Observation of a Large Proportion of Patients Presenting with Clinical Stage T1 Renal Masses Results from the MUSIC-KIDNEY Statewide Collaborative (European Association of Urology, November, 2020)
- Building a Roadmap for Surveillance of Renal Masses Using a Modified Delphi Method to Help Achieve Consensus (Urology, 2023)
- Does Urologist-level Utilization of Active Surveillance for Low-risk Prostate Cancer Correspond with Utilization of Active Surveillance for Small Renal Masses? (European Urology, 2024)
- Outcomes After Initial Noninterventional Management of Clinical Stage cT1b Renal Masses (European Association of Urology, 2025)
Surgical Outcomes
- Development of a Novel Scoring System Quantifies Opportunities to Reduce Surgery for Benign Renal Neoplasms: A Retrospective Quality Improvement Analysis within the MUSIC KIDNEY Collaborative (Journal of Urology, 2020)
- Positive surgical margins in partial nephrectomy: a collaborative effort to maintain surgical quality (BJU International, 2023)
- Practice-Level Variation in Opioid-Free Discharge Following Surgery for T1 Renal Masses: A MUSIC-KIDNEY Analysis (Urology Practice, 2024)
- Conversion to Radical Nephrectomy From Robotic Partial Nephrectomy Is Most Commonly Due to Anatomic and Oncologic Complexity (The Jouronal of Urology, 2024)
- Surgeon Skill and Perioperative Outcomes in Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy (JAMA Netw Open, 2024)