Table 1.
Characteristics of study population (n = 132).*
Figure 1.
Scatter plot of patients' versus surgeons' expectations.
Figure 2.
Bland and Altman graph of differences in expectations (surgeon's score – patient's score).
For each patient, X-axis represents mean (½×(surgeon's score+patient's score)), Y-axis represents difference. The three tertiles-defined groups of patients are represented by three colors (red = “more optimistic patients”; blue = middle group, purple = “more pessimistic patients”).
Figure 3.
Mean (95% CI) surgeon – patient differences for each item of the THR Survey.
Scores for each item range from 0 to 4. N = number of patients who stated this item as “applicable”.
Table 2.
Determinants of patients' or surgeons' expectation (total THR Survey score, max = 100).*
Figure 4.
Box plots comparing surgeon-patient differences between surgeons.
Boxes include the first quartile, the median and the third quartile. Surgeons 4 to 8, who recruited 5–11 patients each, and surgeons 9 to 16, who recruited 1–3 patients each, were aggregated.
Table 3.
Comparison between patients more optimistic than his surgeon and patients more pessimistic.