Does managed care make a difference?
Type of insurance does not affect length of stay. An explanation might be that hospitals have a general policy concerning length of stay, independent of the type of insurance of the patient.
The extent of lymphadenectomy does not appear to affect prostate cancer outcome in lymph node negative cases. This includes patients with high preoperative PSA, high pathological grade and extracapsular disease. These results suggest that under staging is not present in apparently node negative cases with limited lymphadenectomy and, even if present, its impact on outcome is likely to be negligible.