Long-Term Functional and Urological Outcome After Pelvic Fractures
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Long-Term (Minimum 7-years) Function, Social and Urological Outcome After Operatively Treated Pelvic Fractures?
IRAS ID
188454
Contact name
Tim Chesser
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
North Bristol NHS Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 1 months, 1 days
Research summary
Pelvic injuries are usually the result of road traffic collisions and falls. Patients often suffer disability as a result of their injuries. We do not know how long the effect of pelvic injuries last or how severe they are.
The proposed study aims to follow-up a group of 178 patients treated operatively for pelvic ring injuries at North Bristol’s Trauma Centre. The study follows on from a previous research study undertaken in the department in 2007.
We aim to describe the functional outcome of the group at 7-15 years post surgery (average 10-years) using a number of questionnaires relevant to their injuries. These questionnaires focus on mobility, pain, sexual and urinary problems
The data will be analysed in terms of overall function, sexual function and urological disturbance. We will then compare our findings with the results of the same group which was collected at an average of 5 years post surgery in the teams previous research work.
The Bristol pelvic surgeons have treated large numbers of patients and would provide a representative sample to base any observations on. Sexual and urological outcomes are important features of pelvic injury. The results of the 5 year study by the bristol team reported new urological dysfuntion in 41% of patients and sexual dysfunction in 43% of patients at 5 years.
This would be the largest and longest study of its type in the literature. This will inform future long-term care needs of this complex patient group.
REC name
North East - Newcastle & North Tyneside 1 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/NE/0102
Date of REC Opinion
29 Mar 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion