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Summary & Timescale of the Data

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

984 procedures were recorded from 87 consultants at 70 centres in the United Kingdom (909 for England only), including 86 private patients from 25 consultants. 4 of the consultants returning data are not BAUS members. 

90% of the operations (885) proceeded with no reported complications. There were 37 cases (4%) in which a peri-operative complication was recorded. There were no deaths.

Of the 558 patients who have follow-up recorded,  532 (95%) of these recorded whether or not there was a post operative complication.  For 468 (88%) no post-operative complications occurred.  

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for 2014 indicate that there were 1,318 stress urinary incontinence (SUI) procedures undertaken by urologists in England of which the BAUS audit has captured data on 69%. Gynaecologists undertook 7,445 SUI procedures in England.

  • Median number of cases per consultant: 9 (range 1 - 37)
  • Median number of cases per centre:  10 (range 1 - 86)

84% (827) of the procedures were performed for primary SUI and 16% (154) were for recurrent SUI. All data were entered by hand and there was no bulk uploading of data from other systems.

Timeline for 2014 Data

30 Jan 2015 Deadline for submission of data to BAUS
13 Feb 2015 Summaries of data returned to Consultant contributors for validation
13 Mar 2015 Second summary of data sent to Consultant contributors for validation
27 Mar 2015 Final deadline for corrections and additional data
Apr/May 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 Jul 2015 All contributing surgeons sent a link to the website so they could check exactly how their data would be presented