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. |
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