Patients
Urethroplasty Outcomes Data
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 in 2013, 2014 & 2015.
52% of the procedures were bulbar urethroplasties - see below for other 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 |
(100%) |
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 - 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. |
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