Cross-cultural variation in preference for replantation or revision amputation: Societal and surgeon views.

ABSTRACT: Treatment decisions after an injury like finger amputation are made based on injury and patient factors. However, decisions can also be influenced by provider and patient preferences. We compared hand surgeon and societal preferences and attitudes regarding finger amputation treatment in Japan and the US. We performed a cross-sectional survey with subjects derived from large tertiary care academic institutions in the US and Japan. We secured 100% participation of American hand surgeon members of the Finger Replantation and Amputation Multicenter Study and presenting hand surgeons at the 32nd Annual meeting of the Central Japanese Society for Surgery of the Hand. Societal preferences were gathered from volunteers at the 2 universities in the US and Japan. There were no significant differenc

SUBMITTER: Maroukis BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4837039 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature