Retrospective audit of referral and triage pathways of paediatric patients with constipation and soiling

Abstract

Aim: This study aimed to explore referral and triage pathways for paediatric patients referred to an Australian hospital with bowel dysfunction (isolated or mixed bowel and bladder). Methods: We conducted a retrospective audit of patients who attended their first clinic appointment during April to June 2014. Patients were included if they: (i) were a new patient referred for symptoms of constipation, soiling, daytime urinary incontinence or enuresis; and (ii) attended the encopresis, general medicine, continence, gastroenterology, paediatric surgery, urology, renal or Child and Adolescent Mental Health clinic. Patients with an organic cause (e.g. Hirschsprung disease) for their dysfunction w..