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Summary & Timescale of the Data

The data collection period was from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014.

6,161 cases were submitted in total, of which 5,814 were from England; these 5,814 cases came from 147 consultants at 62 sites, and include 230 private patients from 37 consultants.

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for 2014 indicate that there were 6,651 radical prostatectomies undertaken in England so we collected data on 87% of the radical prostatectomies undertaken in England in 2014.

58.5% were robotic assisted, 26.7% laparoscopic, 13.4% open and in 1.4% of cases the technique was not recorded.

  • Median number of cases per consultant: 32 (range 1 - 157)
  • Median number of cases per centre:  85 (range 1 - 250)

The overall transfusion rate was 2.7% - for England only, 2.6%. In England only, the transfusion rates by technique were: open 5.4%, laparoscopic 0.8% and robotic 2.9%.

5,174 of the entries recorded whether there had been adverse events. The total post-operative complication rate was 9.5% (491 / 5174). Of these 491 cases, 364 recorded the Clavien Dindo grade (i.e. 127 or 26% did not). Complications classified as Clavien Dindo Grade III or above were seen in 1.6% of cases.

Timeline for 2014 Data

31 Mar 2015 Deadline for submission of data to BAUS
30 May 2015 Summaries of data returned to Consultant contributors for validation
26 Jun 2015 Second summary of data sent to Consultant contributors for validation
31 Jul 2015 Final deadline for corrections and additional data
August 2015 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.
15 Sep 2015 All contributing surgeons were sent a link to the website so they could check exactly how their data would be presented.