A Study of Ward Admissions for Haematuria

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients are included if they are over 16 years of age or older and admitted to a participating urological secondary care centre * admitted as an emergency with haematuria as the primary or secondary diagnosis under the primary or joint care of urology Exclusion Criteria: * any patients under 16 years of age * patients with catheter-related urethral trauma (defined as haemturia immediately after insertion of a urethral catheter that was documented as traumatic by the clinician, with no previous history of haemturia prior to catheter insertion) * patients that are in hospital less than 24 hours.