From: Equipoise across the patient population: optimising recruitment to a randomised controlled trial
Decision | Preference | Symptoms | Operation |
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Declined randomisation | Preference for urethrotomy | Symptom recurrence and severity is tolerable | Symptom recurrence sufficiently tolerable to not want to endure serious operation and recovery time |
Preference for urethroplasty | Symptom recurrence and severity no longer tolerable. Patient desires a permanent solution | Desire for long-term solution overrides immediate symptom relief. Unwilling to risk further recurrence | |
Accepted randomisation | No preference | Symptoms tolerable but considering serious operation | Willing to commit to recovery time. An additional repeated urethrotomy is also acceptable |