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Study: Physician manner, surgical outcomes indicate provider selection for TJA
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When patients research providers for elective total hip and total knee arthroplasty, they value surgical outcome and physician manner when choosing the surgeon and hospital, according to this recent research.
“Our findings suggest physician manner and surgical outcomes are the most important considerations for patients when choosing a provider for elective TJA,” Kevin J. Bozic, MD, MBA, and colleagues from the University of California San Francisco Medical Center stated in the study abstract.
Using the 5-point Likert scale – which rates factors from “unimportant” to “very important” – patients scored physician manner as an average 4.7 on the scale, with physician quality at an average 4.6, according to the abstract. Cost sharing was the least important factor in choosing a physician and hospital.
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While patients rated physician manner and quality as important factors, only 46% were able to find relevant information to compare physician outcomes and 47% found relevant information on hospital outcomes, according to the abstract.
“Future efforts should be directed at developing clinically relevant, easily interpretable, objective, risk-adjusted measures of physician and hospital quality,” Bozic and colleagues wrote.
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