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A survey of the general publics\u2019 awareness of\n                      <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">UDT<\/jats:styled-content>\n                      and survey of primary healthcare practitioners\u2019 current opinion on age at orchidopexy and referral patterns were performed.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      In all, 3784 orchidopexies were performed over 22 years. The median age at orchidopexy fell between 1993 and 2014. There was an initial drop in the median age for orchidopexy between 2000 and 2010 (36 months) compared with 1993 and 2000 (48 months) (\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.05); however, beyond the corresponding target age (&lt;18 months). The age for orchidopexy between 2010 and 2014 was also beyond the corresponding target age (6\u20139 months). The survey of the general public showed that 0.98% had knowledge of\n                      <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">UDT<\/jats:styled-content>\n                      and none of them knew about the target age for orchidopexy in the survey of 5393 cases. In all, 63.46% of them were told about the\n                      <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">UDT<\/jats:styled-content>\n                      by healthcare practitioners at the 1\u20134 months postnatal baby check. Furthermore, only 2% of the healthcare practitioners knew the recommended age for orchidopexy was 6\u20139 months and only 14.3% of them would directly make a surgical referral to paediatric surgery specifically at this point.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The recommended orchidopexy age is not being achieved and we recognise the national need to address this. 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