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Table 1 Summary of patients’ accounts of their treat preferences

From: Equipoise across the patient population: optimising recruitment to a randomised controlled trial

Decision

Preference

Symptoms

Operation

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