The on-line PCNL Data Registry commenced in January 2010 and has recently been modified in response to comments from Section Members.
This is a prospective method of data collection that will enable contributors to audit their practise for this complex stone procedure.
The BAUS Section of Endourology Data and Audit Committee remain grateful to all those surgeons who contribute to this registry and are confident this will provide essential data, such as outcome measures, against which urologists can benchmark their practise. All members participating in the audit receive personal feedback sheets.
Total PCNL returns as at March 2012 were 1370 from 67 consultants at 56 centres, click here for a list of participating centres and their respective volumes.
The updated dataset was released on the Nuvola system on 19 January 2011 and the full dataset, with changes highlighted in red can be viewed here. PCNL dataset
The system has been modified to that your radiological colleagues can also have access to the PCNL register, to arrange access please contact Sarah Fowler, BAUS database manager.
Submission of data
The only method for returning data for the PCNL registry is via the BAUS data and audit system. No paper returns or extracts from the old Access databases are now accepted.
Any paper forms submitted to Sarah Fowler or the BAUS office will be returned to sender.
Reports and publications on the audit
PCNL audit 2007
(presentation prepared by Neil Burgess)
Presentation of PCNL Registry data (J Armitage - September 2011)
Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy in the United Kingdom: Results of a Prospective Data Registry
James N. Armitage, Stuart O. Irving, Neil A. Burgess, for the British Association of Urological Surgeons Section of Endourology . Accepted by European Urology 3 January 2012, Published online 11 January 2012
