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Table 1 Screening Criteria for Patients and HCPs

From: Impact of COVID-19 on patient and healthcare professional attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors toward the healthcare system and on the dynamics of the healthcare pathway

Patients

HCPsa

VMS

• Age 50–59 years

• Experience ≥5 hot flashes/day lasting 10 min

• ≥12 months since menstrual period

• Willing to see a doctor and take medical treatment

Oncologistsb

• Minimum of 15 prostate cancer and mUC patients

• Must prescribe infusion therapy

Overactive bladder

• Willing to see a doctor and try drug treatment

• Mix of early-, mid-, and late-stage

Gynecologists

• Minimum 15 VMS patients

Prostate cancer

• Age 61–68 years

• Must be receiving treatment

Urologistsb,c

• Minimum 10 prostate cancer and 5 mUC patients

• Must prescribe infusion therapy

mUC

• Age 51–65 years

• Must be receiving treatment

• Metastatic (US) and nonmetastatic (Japan) cancer

Primary care physicians

• Minimum 15 OAB patients

  1. Abbreviations: HCP Healthcare professional, mUC Metastatic urothelial carcinoma, OAB Overactive bladder, US United States, VMS Vasomotor symptoms
  2. aHCPs were required to have been in medical practice for at least 2 but no more than 35 years; US HCPs were recruited from states where there were sufficient cases of COVID-19 to impact their practice
  3. bUrologists and oncologists were required to treat both prostate cancer and mUC
  4. cUrologists were required to have prescribed infusion therapy; US urologists must not work at a government hospital and Japanese urologists must work at an academic hospital or private practice