The Ideal Orthopaedic Surgeon: Comparing Patient Preferences of Surgeon Attributes to Notions Held by Orthopaedic Postgraduates.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Stereotypes have been a barrier to providing patients a diverse orthopaedic workforce. Our goal was to identify stereotypes and disparities among doctors and their patients regarding the attributes that should determine a competent orthopaedic surgeon.

Materials and methods

A cross-sectional descriptive multicenter study was conducted in India. Tailored questionnaires were administered to patients and orthopaedic postgraduates to determine the attributes they believe patients prefer in their orthopaedic surgeon. Likert data and data on preferred sex of the surgeon were analyzed as categorical data sets using frequency statistics. Participants were asked to rank surgeon attributes and analysis was based on frequency of an item among top 5 surgeon attributes.

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SUBMITTER: Mirza K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10593707 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature