35) A study is conducted to evaluate the overall impact of prostate-specific antigen testing as a screening tool for prostate cancer in otherwise investigators have data on rates of cancer and all-cause mortality and prostate cancer-specific mortality. An analysis of mortality (including impotence and urinary incontinence), and the psychological impact of screening (including anxiety and sleeplessness) is of utilities associated with these outcomes, and the investigators use the data to determine the probabilities associated with the various best outcome measures to use in this study? Case-specific mortality Quality-adjusted life years Risk-adjusted mortality Standardized mortality ratio Years of potential life lost

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35) A study is conducted to evaluate the overall impact of prostate-specific antigen testing as a screening tool for prostate cancer in otherwise investigators have data on rates of cancer and all-cause mortality and prostate cancer-specific mortality. An analysis of mortality (including impotence and urinary incontinence), and the psychological impact of screening (including anxiety and sleeplessness) is of utilities associated with these outcomes, and the investigators use the data to determine the probabilities associated with the various best outcome measures to use in this study?

  1. Case-specific mortality

  2. Quality-adjusted life years

  3. Risk-adjusted mortality

  4. Standardized mortality ratio

  5. Years of potential life lost 

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