Which method of pancreatic surgery do medical consumers prefer among open, laparoscopic, or robotic surgery? A survey.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The consumers' preferences are not considered in developing or implementing new medical technologies. Furthermore, little efforts are made to investigate their demands. Therefore, their preferred surgical method and the factors affecting that preference were investigated in pancreatic surgery.

Methods

Six-hundred subjects including 100 medical personnel (MP) and 500 lay persons (LP) were surveyed. Questionnaire included basic information on different methods of distal pancreatectomy; open surgery (OS), laparoscopic surgery (LS), and robotic surgery (RS). Assuming they required the operation, participants were told to indicate their preferred method along with a reason and an acceptable cost for both benign and malignant conditions.

Results

For benign disease,

SUBMITTER: Kwon W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3994613 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature