A Prospective Patient-centred Evaluation of Urethroplasty for Anterior Urethral Stricture Using a Validated Patient-reported Outcome Measure

Prevalence of Post-Micturition Incontinence before and after Anterior Urethroplasty

“…Most early studies on the voiding dysfunction associated with urethral stricture disease used the AUA symptom score to evaluate PROMs 8,9 . However, we have found that post-micturition incontinence is a key question that distinguishes currently utilized, urethroplasty-specific questionnaires, and it remains a symptom that patients regard as important and significant in quality of life 6 .…”

“…The importance of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) after reconstructive surgery has previously been described 5,6 . While clinician measures of success often focus upon purely objective end points (e.g., change in maximum flow rate, time to recurrence, need for additional surgical procedures), results from these validated questionnaires are closely associated with patient satisfaction after surgery 7 .…”

Psychometric validation of a German language version of a PROM for urethral stricture surgery and preliminary testing of supplementary ED and UI constructs

“…If physicians make treatment decisions based on health outcomes, medical errors and unnecessary treatments could be prevented; thus, patients are more likely to receive high-quality care [9]. In consequence, subjective, patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) such as voiding symptoms, pain, mobility and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are equally important as objective outcome measures derived by maximum flow rate, urethrography or urethrocystography after USS [4,10].…”

Flexible Cystourethroscopy in the Follow-up of Posturethroplasty Patients and Characterisation of Recurrences

“…Although there were no validated stricture symptom scores available at the time of this study, patient-reported outcome measures specific to urethral stricture surgery have been developed. Despite this, there is no published work that has assessed the relationship between these measures and traditional follow-up methods for detecting stricture recurrence [18].…”