Fig 1.
Survey respondents by training.
Survey respondents by training level and role.
Fig 2.
Perceived higher expense and clinical value between paired items.
Perceived higher expense and clinical value between ten paired items for 102 respondents. Higher expense item of matched pairs underlined.
Fig 3.
Perceived cost difference between paired items.
Mean perceived cost differences between ten paired items for 102 respondents. x indicates the mean perceived cost difference, ● is the actual cost difference. T-tests used and significance (p< 0.05) is indicated by *.
Fig 4.
Clinicians willingness to use/suggest using a lower expense item.
Clinicians indicated their willingness to use or suggest using a lower expense item if they were aware of cost differences of clinically similar items. The inner doughnut chart present results from arthroplasty attendings, while the outside doughnut chart presents results from all other respondents.
Fig 5.
Importance of decision factors in product selection.
Importance of decision factors in product selection for arthroplasty attendings.