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Summary & Timescale of the Data

The data collection period was from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2014.

1,343 cases were submitted in total, of which 1,330 were from England; these 1330 cases came from 35 consultants at 27 sites, and include 151 private patients from 8 consultants.

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for 2013 & 2014 indicate that there were 1,835 urethroplasties undertaken in England so we collected data on 72.5% of the urethroplasties undertaken in England in 2013 & 2014.

53% of the procedures were bulbar urethroplasties - see below for other sites:

  OPERATIVE STRICTURE SITE NUMBER % TOTAL
  Bulbar urethra 710 52.9%
  Penile urethra 255 19.0%
  Navicular fossa 82 6.1%
  External urethral meatus 63 4.7%
  Bulbo-prostatic urethra 60 4.5%
  Bladder neck 14 1.0%
  Peno-bulbar urethra 13 1.0%
  Location of stricture not recorded 146 10.9%
  GRAND TOTAL 1,343 (100%)

The median number of cases per Consultant was 21 (range 1 - 203) and per Centre was 26 (range 1 - 295).

The overall median length of stay for bulbar urethroplasty was 2 days (range 0 – 22 days).

98.6% (1,325) of the entries recorded whether there had been an intra-operative complication, with a total recorded intra-operative complication rate of 4.12%.  78% (1,044) of the entries recorded whether there had been a post-operative complication, with a total post-operative complication rate (up to 30 days) of 7.89%.

Follow-up was reported in 668 cases (49.8% of all).

Timeline for 2013 & 2014 Data

30 Jun 2015 Deadline for submission of data to BAUS
14 Aug 2015 Summaries of data returned to Consultant contributors for validation
30 Sep 2015 Second summary of data sent to Consultant contributors for validation
16 Oct 2015 Final deadline for corrections and additional data
October 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.
9 Nov 2015 All contributing surgeons were sent a link to the website so they could check exactly how their data would be presented.