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It included demographics, perceived hand size\/strength, ease of instrument use, and discomfort.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Among 277 respondents (55% female, mean age 43.0\u2009\u00b1\u200911.4), 26% reported glove fit issues\u2014more common in females (32% vs. 16%,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.001). Nearly half (49%) reported hand size impacted their ability to use instruments and 52.73% reported having to make intraoperative adjustments in order to use the instruments effectively. Female urologists found all surgical instruments harder to use compared to their male counterparts (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.05). Overall, 40% of respondents reported using some form of intervention to address discomfort and\/or injury related to surgical instrument use (47% of females vs. 34% of males;\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.05). Female urologists and urologists with smaller hands reported significantly more discomfort using the flexible ureteroscope, disposable flexible ureteroscope, nephroscope, stapler, Ligasure, laparoscopic right angle, Trilogy\u2122 and ShockPulse\u2122 (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.05).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our findings suggest that currently available urologic instruments do not fit a large subset of urologists. 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