Background: Health services face the challenges created by complex problems, and so need complex intervention solutions. However they also experience ongoing difficulties in translating findings from research in this area in to quality improvement changes on the ground. BounceBack was a service development innovation project which sought to examine this issue through the implementation and evaluation in a primary care setting of a novel complex intervention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Laparoscopic radical cystectomy (LRC) and robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) are increasingly popular, but high-level evidence for these techniques remains lacking.
Objective: To compare the outcomes of patients undergoing open radical cystectomy (ORC), RARC, and LRC.
Design, Setting, And Participants: From March 2009 to July 2012, 164 patients requiring radical cystectomy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer or high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer were invited to participate, with an aim of recruiting 47 patients into each arm.
Objective: To evaluate the patient experience of our dedicated botulinum toxin A (BTX-A) service using a validated patient-reported experience measure (PREM) and assess patient-reported satisfaction with treatment.
Materials And Methods: The first 100 patients who underwent BTX-A treatment for refractory idiopathic detrusor overactivity (IDO) in our institution were contacted for telephone interview. They had all been assessed, injected and followed up in a dedicated BTX-A clinic.
Objective: To validate the Bladder Control Self-Assessment Questionnaire (B-SAQ), a short screener to assess lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and overactive bladder (OAB) in men.
Patients And Methods: This was a prospective, single-centre study including 211 patients in a urology outpatient setting. All patients completed the B-SAQ and Kings Health Questionnaire (KHQ) before consultation, and the consulting urologist made an independent assessment of LUTS and the need for treatment.
Background: Efficacy and safety of botulinum toxin type A (BoNTA) injection is supported by level 1 evidence, but data regarding repeated injections are limited in patients with refractory overactive bladder (OAB) and idiopathic detrusor overactivity (IDO).
Objectives: Describe medium-term outcomes and discontinuation rates for patients adopting repeated BoNTA as a management strategy for IDO.
Design, Setting, And Participants: Prospective data from a single centre were collected from the first 100 patients.