Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce that MedReviews®, LLC and the Large Urology Group Practice Association (LUGPA) have formed a strategic partnership intended to enhance our educational missions. A cornerstone of this partnership is that Reviews in Urology (RIU) will become the official journal of LUGPA.
RIU’s primary objective is to deliver scholarly yet easy‐to‐read content targeted to the busy urologist in clinical practice. Since 1999, the journal has been mailed quarterly, gratis, to all US‐based urologists registered with the American Medical Association. We focus on review articles, meeting reviews, product reviews, and case reviews—and the majority of this content has been generated our distinguished Editorial Board members. RIU is indexed in PubMed, which is testimony to the scholarly content of our journal. Several years ago, an independent group conducted a survey of our readership that demonstrated RIU was widely read by the urology community and was considered a valuable educational vehicle.
LUGPA was established in 2008, and has grown to include over 100 groups and represents over 2,000 practicing urologists. LUGPA’s goal is to provide physicians practicing in integrated urology group practices the means to access resources, technology, and management tools so they can provide the services needed to care for patients with acute and chronic illnesses of the genitourinary system in an efficient, cost-effective, and clinically superior manner. This is accomplished by using data collection to create parameters that demonstrate quality and value to patients, vendors, third-party payers, and regulatory agencies. By joining forces with MedReviews, the leadership of LUGPA will provide scholarly and clinically relevant content to its membership to support the association’s mission: assisting practices in the delivery of excellent clinical and evidence-based patient care.
Most major urology societies are affiliated with a journal (American Urological Association, Journal of Urology; Société Internationale d’Urologie, Urology; European Association of Urology, European Urology; International Society for Sexual Medicine, Journal of Sexual Medicine; Society for Urodynamics & Female Urology and International Continence Society, Neurourology and Urodynamics; British Association of Urological Surgeons, BJU International). Our overlapping constituencies and missions provide a natural fit for RIU to become the official journal of LUGPA.
Several members of LUGPA will be appointed to the Editorial Board, and each issue will contain additional material of interest to both the LUGPA membership and the wider group of practicing urologists. In general, the format of RIU will not change. The journal will continue to mail to all US-based urologists free of charge.
We are confident this strategic relationship will better enable us to serve you, the practicing urologist, as you strive to deliver effective, efficient, and evidence-based care.
Herbert Lepor, MD
Co-Medical Editor, Reviews in Urology
Gary M. Kirsh, MD
Secretary, LUGPA