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Summary & Timescale of the Data

The data collection period was from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.

2,070 cases were submitted in total, of which 2,019 were from England; these 2,019 cases came from 38 consultants at 30 sites, and include 224 private patients from 12 consultants.

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for 2013, 2014 & 2015 indicate that there were 2,672 urethroplasties undertaken in England so we collected data on 75.6% of the urethroplasties undertaken in England from 2013 to 2015.

52% of the procedures were bulbar urethroplasties - see the table below for all sites:
 

  OPERATIVE STRICTURE SITE NUMBER % TOTAL
  Bulbar urethra 1070 51.7%
  Penile urethra 376 18.2%
  Navicular fossa 145 7.0%
  External urethral meatus 95 4.6%
  Bulbo-prostatic urethra 85 4.1%
  Bladder neck 17 0.8%
  Peno-bulbar urethra 92 4.4%
  Location of stricture not recorded 190 9.2%
  GRAND TOTAL 2,070  

 

The median number of cases per Consultant was 25 (range 1 - 333) and per Centre was 26 (range 1 - 414).

The overall median length of stay for bulbar urethroplasty was 1 days (range 0 – 20 days).

98% (1,995) of the entries recorded whether there had been an intra-operative complication, with a total recorded intra-operative complication rate of 2%.  90.5% (1,511) of the entries recorded whether there had been a post-operative complication, with a total post-operative complication rate (up to 30 days) of 9.5%.

Follow-up was reported in 1331 cases (64.3% of all).

Timeline for 2013 to 2015 data

30 Jun 2016 Deadline for submission of data to BAUS
1 Aug 2016 Summaries of data returned to Consultant contributors for validation
21 Sep 2016 Second summary of data sent to Consultant contributors for validation
7 Oct 2016 Final deadline for corrections and additional data
October 2016 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.
9 Nov 2016 All contributing surgeons were sent a link to the website so they could check exactly how their data would be presented.