M. Koelker
31 Papers
5 Citations
M. Koelker is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 25 publications.
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Papers
Impact of exercise on physical health status in bladder cancer patients.
M. Koelker,K. Alkhatib,Logan G. Briggs,Muhieddine Labban,Christian Meyer,Christina M. Dieli-Conwright,Dong-Woo Kang,Graeme S. Steele,Mark A. Preston,Timothy Clinton,Steven L. Chang,Adam S. Kibel,Quoc-Dien Trinh,Matthew Mossanen +13 more
TL;DR: It is found that exercise is protective for self-reported poor physical health status, and implementation of exercise programs for bladder cancer patients could be promising in improving health status.
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Racial Disparities in Prostate Cancer Screening: The Role of Shared Decision-Making.
Nicola Frego,E. Beatrici,Muhieddine Labban,Benjamin V. Stone,D. K. Filipas,M. Koelker,Giovanni Lughezzani,Nicolò Maria Buffi,Nora Y. Osman,Stuart R. Lipsitz,Jesse D. Sammon,Adam S. Kibel,Quoc-Dien Trinh,Alexander P. Cole +13 more
TL;DR: SDM might attenuate the effect of race/ethnic disparities on the likelihood of PSA screening, and research on strategies to mitigate these disparities is needed.
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Understanding Hospital-Level Patterns of Nonoperative Management for Low-risk Thyroid and Kidney Cancer
M. Koelker,Marieke J. Krimphove,K. Alkhatib,Junaid Nabi,Lindsay E. Kuo,Stuart R. Lipsitz,Toni K. Choueiri,Steven L. Chang,Gerard M. Doherty,Adam S. Kibel,Quoc-Dien Trinh,Alexander P. Cole +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a cross-sectional study evaluates hospital-level patterns of nonoperative management for low-risk thyroid and kidney cancer in patients undergoing non-operative treatment in hospitals.
Oncological validation and discriminative ability of pentafecta criteria after open radical cystectomy
M. von Deimling,Michael Rink,Jakob Klemm,M. Koelker,Frederik König,Philipp Gild,Maryam Sadat Khonsari,Tim A. Ludwig,P. Marks,Roland Dahlem,Margit Fisch,Malte W. Vetterlein +11 more
TL;DR: Pentafecta criteria represent accurate quality indicators for oncological outcome reporting after open radical cystectomy for non-metastatic bladder cancer with a distinct discriminative ability to predict long-term overall mortality and cancer-specific mortality.
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Hospital rating websites play a minor role for uro-oncologic patients when choosing a hospital for major surgery: results of the German multicenter NAVIGATOR-study
Christer Groeben,Katharina Boehm,Rainer Koch,Ulrich Sonntag,Tim Nestler,Julian P. Struck,Matthias Heck,Martin Baunacke,Annemarie Uhlig,M. Koelker,Christian Meyer,Benedikt Becker,Johannes Salem,Johannes Huber,Marianne Leitsmann +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the impact of purpose hospital rating websites (HRW) on uro-oncological patients undergoing elective surgery in Germany and found that only 4.3% used a HRW for decision making.