Mp22-14 a Mixed Methods Approach to Exploring Patient Motivations for Delaying Definitive Treatment of Urethral Stricture Disease

Editorial Comment

“…The authors have provided useful and insightful data looking at an important but often overlooked aspect of clinical research: patient quality of life and patient-reported outcomes measures. 1 Given the relative incidence of patients with urethral stricture disease having multiple endoscopic procedures, the authors were laudably able to accrue 20 participants. They report and relay significant patient concerns and dissatisfaction with their overall quality of life especially in regard to multiple procedures and repeated catheterizations, a finding echoed by Lubahn et al 2 This represents important data as there is an increased awareness and value being attributed to quality of life research and patient-reported outcomes research as it is an increasingly common justification for resource allocation among health care policy makers.…”

“…While there have been prior attempts at creating succinct and robust patient-reported outcomes measures, there remains a dearth of reliable evidence, and this presents ample opportunities for future research in the arena of reconstructive urology. 4 Logan Hubbard, 1 Marcus L. Jamil, 1 and Nabeel A. Shakir 1…”