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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Urology. 2010 Aug 13;76(5):1117–1121. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2010.03.060

Table 3.

EPIC urinary and sexual function baseline and outcomes following robotic prostatectomy by prostate size†

EPIC domain Prostate size (gm) p-value
<50 50-100 >100
Baseline EPIC urinary irritative subscale, mean 90.0 82.2 79.7 p<0.001
3 month EPIC urinary irritative, mean* 88.8 87.6 88.8 p=0.92
Baseline EPIC urinary incontinence subscale, mean 96.0 92.0 90.9 p<0.01
3 month EPIC urinary incontinence subscale, mean** 62.2 49.0 44.0 p=0.03
Baseline EPIC sexual subscale, Mean 77.9 68.5 38.2 p<0.001
3 month EPIC sexual subscale, mean*** 35.0 29.3 10.5 p=0.88

Adjusted for

*

baseline,

**

baseline, age at surgery and BMI

***

baseline, age at surgery and nerve-sparing

†

Each group of prostate size (<50 grams, 50-100 grams, and >100 grams) corresponded to 204, 80 and 8 study patients for the urinary continence domain, 198, 76 and 6 study patients for the urinary irritative domain, and 196, 79 and 6 study patients for the sexual function domain, respectively.