Comparing Surgeon And Patient Health Preferences

Surgery comes with great expectations and great risks for complications. Patients and their surgeons each may have preferences for outcomes after surgery. But are their preferences the same or do they differ? A recent study, “A comparison of physician and patient time tradeoffs for postoperative hip outcomes”, published in Value in Health, looks at this issue.

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Filed under: Cosmetic Medicine on October 26th, 2008