Surgeon personality is associated with recommendation for operative treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

When surgeons disagree about the role of surgery, patient values and preferences should drive decision-making, but there is evidence that surgeon preferences have substantial influence. Surgeon preferences may relate to surgeon personality. Our primary null hypothesis is that specific personality characteristics (work styles) are not associated with the recommendation for operative treatment accounting for surgeon demographics.

Patients and methods

We invited members of the Science of Variation Group to assess images of 15 upper extremity injuries with debatable indications for surgery, recommended operative or non-operative treatment, and grade their confidence in this decision (n = 270); subsequently, participants completed the validated Octogram Work and Leadershi

SUBMITTER: Teunis T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4641093 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature