Dr. Matthew Nielsen
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first heard Sep 2024
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So, you know, claims data, BMR, you know, things like that, even with our aqua registry, which is, you know, an incredibly rich resource. Some of these factors in terms of, you know, what kind of laser is being used, you know, what is the sort of specific way that you're managing this or that pretty common practice is an opportunity that we have in the census.
And so that's where, as Dr. North was saying, there, you know, this through this rotating cadence of subspecialty areas over the years. were able to cover a lot of different areas and get insights that are questions that can't be answered through other readily available data sets. One of the other applications and advantages of these kinds of unique data within the space was
are that those responses can then be mapped back to respondent characteristics. And so many people in the field have availed themselves of the census data as an opportunity to do research. And that has been a very productive thing for the field, has given us beyond the really, really rich resource that is the publication that comes out for the census every year, specific resources
Thank you so much for having me. And that program is an opportunity on an annual cycle for folks who have those sorts of questions to ask in CensusData or AquaData to put a proposal forward that could be an opportunity to do some research with support of AUA Statistical Services.
Yeah, great question. And this is another topic that gets into what Dr. North was alluding to, how we try to use the census to help us inform our very effective advocacy work, bringing important topics like this to Capitol Hill in the Advocacy Summit every year, where we have data from this real-world practice sample that is the census.
So from this last year's 2023 data, about 10% of the total visits were video, was reported by about 23% of the urologists overall. And the rates of this are still, though those numbers are small, those are still significant. significantly higher than many of our colleagues in surgical specialties. And so I think it's also noted that a number of the visits, about 10%, were audio only.
And this is something that, you know, many of us encounter in our practice for a variety of different, you know, Patient technology barriers, broadband barriers, having the opportunity to be reimbursed for that time that is, you know, excellent patient care delivered over the phone is something that's still important to a lot of our members and their patients.
Work in this space, I think, gets into some of the opportunities we have as we think about and try to problem solve for the distribution problem we have with over-concentration of urologists in some communities and a real desert of urologists across much of the country, how we can keep that message on point of the opportunity for these telehealth modalities to provide access in a more equitable way across the country.
Yeah, I think, you know, we were excited to have these questions in the censuses here. And I love that you had Dr. Krauser on this topic. She has just been such a great leader for our field and really bringing this to light. I mean, I honestly don't remember, you know, when I was going through training, anybody ever talking about it.
But I, you know, people had, you know, sore necks and sore backs and other, you know, other things that were reflecting the issues in play here. But I am excited for the field and for the next generation of the field to have this front and center and be able to get some information out there.
So, you know, so I think that we, with this have an opportunity to just, you know, just by raising awareness of it, and, you know, raising awareness and connecting people to the resources that are out there.
There's a society of ergonomics in surgery that is, you know, really thinking about this as, I mean, it's a patient access issue, you know, to the extent that we can take care of ourselves as surgeons and keep ourselves in the game that much longer, aside from our, you know, physical health, it's also for the good of our patients.
So I think it's a really important topic that we're excited to have as a part of this.
Yeah, I'd say, you know, thank you so much for the opportunity to come on. Dr. North, you know, just briefly alluded to it there, but just to sort of call it out, in addition to her amazing leadership and all the physicians who were on there, we're really grateful to the AUA staff who make the magic happen behind the scenes.
And so when you go to the annual meeting and fill out your census next year, please thank them as well, because this has been a great resource for us. It's really...
a unique data set that we control you know we can we can sort of you know think of these questions as dr north said a theme hopefully across the the conversation today is democratization both of access to data you know having people bring their good ideas you know we solicit questions every year and the the opportunity to do research on these uh data sets is there
And then finally, to the theme of burnout that we talked about towards the end, I just would encourage all of our listeners to really reach out and get involved with activities with the AUA. It's a nice antidote to burnout to be able to make friends across our subspecialty areas across the country. and make a difference for our field.
As Dr. North said, a lot of these things have impacted our policy and advocacy agendas and have given us really great insights.
So I would just encourage everybody out there to look at your AUA emails that give a constant stream of opportunities to get involved, either with our committees on the Science and Quality Council or elsewhere, because it is, at the end of the day, a really lot of fun, and we love our community of urologists.
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