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Summary & Timescale of the Data

The 3-year data collection period was from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2017.

5,922 cases were submitted in total, of which 5,404 were from England (1,795 from 2015, 1,841 from 2016 and 1768 from 2017); these 5,922 cases came from 158 consultants at 75 sites, and include 133 private patients from 35 consultants.

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for 2015, 2016 & 2017 indicate that there were 5,742 radical cystectomies undertaken in England during this time period (1,952 in 2015, 1,877 in 2016 and 1,913 in 2017), so this audit collected data on 94% of the radical cystectomies undertaken in England during 2015 to 2017 (inclusive).

Of the total 5,922 cases reported 61% were open, 32% were robotic assisted, 5.4% laparoscopic, 1.7% Minimally invasive NOS and in 0.1% of cases the technique was not recorded.

Activity by year

YEAR Median per Consultant Range Median per centre Range Final data analysis
2015 11 1 - 92 22 1 - 102 2015 summary data
2016 13 1 - 66 25.5 1 - 116 2016 summary data
2017 11 1 - 58 24 1 - 91 2017 summary data
All 29 1 - 223 63 1 - 310  

Adverse events

The transfusion rate for open cases was 20.98%;  the transfusion rate for minimally invasive cases was 4.97%.

The overall 30-day mortality rate was 1.3% (77 out of 5922); the overall 90-day mortality rate was 2.2% (131 out of 5922).

Timeline for 2015, 2016 & 2017 data

1 Jun 2018 Deadline for submission of data to BAUS
7 Jun 2018 Summaries of data returned to Consultant contributors for validation
3 Aug 2018 Final deadline for corrections and additional data
Aug / Sep 2018 Data extracted from the web-based database. Once extracted, the data was transferred to a Microsoft Access™ database for validation before being imported into Tableau™ for generation of the analyses
4 Oct 2018 All contributing surgeons were sent a link to the website so they could check exactly how their data would be presented
26 Oct 2018 Data live to public