The cost-effectiveness of reusable flexible ureteroscopes: An institutional audit.

Introduction: A flexible ureteroscope (FU) is an important tool in the urologist's armamentarium. This study aims to check the durability and cost-effectiveness of conventional FU.

Methods: The institution registry of damaged FU over the last 7 years was reviewed.

Institutionalizing quality within national health systems: key ingredients for success.

Quality improvement initiatives can be fragmented and short-term, leading to missed opportunities to improve quality in a systemic and sustainable manner. An overarching national policy or strategy on quality, informed by frontline implementation, can provide direction for quality initiatives across all levels of the health system. This can strengthen service delivery along with strong leadership, resources, and infrastructure as essential building blocks for the health system.

Can Changes in Service Delivery Models Improve Program Quality and Efficiency? A Closer Look at HIV Programs in Kenya and Uganda.

Background: With the scale-up of antiretroviral treatment, many health facilities in low- and middle-income countries have implemented innovative practices targeted at overcoming operational challenges and delivering efficient quality HIV services. However, many of these practices remain largely unexplored as a means to better reach the global 90-90-90 targets.

Setting: A study was conducted on selected facilities in districts of country programs supported by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.

Role of transurethral resection of the prostate simulators for training in transurethral surgery.

Purpose Of Review: Transurethral surgery is an art unique to urologists; mastering the craft is essential for day-to-day practice. Medical treatment along with minimally invasive treatments have significantly reduced the number of transurethral resection of prostates. Decrease in resident's training hours, expanding subspecialties and the emergence of newer technologies have burdened the trainees who are trying to digest the ever-expanding medical literature.

Impact of case volume on outcomes of ureteroscopy for ureteral stones: the clinical research office of the endourological society ureteroscopy global study.

Background: The Clinical Research Office of the Endourological Society (CROES) undertook the Ureteroscopy Global Study to establish a prospective global database to examine the worldwide use of ureteroscopy (URS) and to determine factors affecting outcome.

Objective: To investigate the influence of case volume on the outcomes of URS for ureteral stones.

Design, Setting, And Participants: The URS Global Study collected prospective data on consecutive patients with urinary stones treated with URS at 114 centres worldwide for 1 yr.