Patient-Surgeon Communication in Thoracic Surgery: Insights from a European Multi-Country Survey on the Perioperative Experience.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Many advancements have occurred in surgery from the technical side with increasingly sophisticated minimally invasive surgical options to the patient care side with the advent of ERAS and patient-related outcomes research. Patient-related outcomes research has allowed providers to focus on what is most important to a patient when it comes to quality of life, however, an ill-defined disconnect persists between the desires of patients and the perspectives of surgeons on what the patient values the most.

Methods

A rigorously designed multi-country European survey of 9 carefully curated questions meant to mimic the perioperative journey for both the patient and surgeon distributed through an online link or paper version who recently underwent thoracic surgery and to s

SUBMITTER: Pineda J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12534904 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature