Discrepancies between guidelines and clinical practice regarding prostate-specific antigen testing

Most guidelines recommend a judicious use of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, whereas in daily practice, an increase of the incidence of PSA testing has been shown. Accurate up-to-date PSA test incidence rates are, however, lacking. To investigate the PSA test incidence rates in general practices over the past 10 years and to study which factors are associated with more frequent test use. We performed a retrospective cohort study using...