Table 1.

Background variables

Variable	Categories	Choose & Book (n = 47)	Partial Booking (n = 57)	TOTAL	Test comparing groups (excluding missing data)
Gender	Female	29	38	67	Fisher's exact p = 0.7
	Male	18	19	37
Age	16–29	10	9	19	Mann-Whitney z = 1.5, p = 0.1
	30–44	6	18	24
	45–59	11	17	28
	60–79	16	11	27
	80+	4	2	6
Ethnic group	White British	30	41	71	Fisher's exact p = 0.6
	South Asian	9	8	17
	Other	3	7	10
	missing	5	1	6
Specialty division	Ambulatory Care	10	29	39	Fisher's exact p = 0.008
	Surgery	14	8	22
	Women & Children	8	10	18
	Medicine	11	6	17
	missing	4	4	8
"How important to you is being given choice over where you go to receive hospital treatment?"	Very important	21	27	48	Mann-Whitney z = 0.8, p = 0.4
	Important	12	17	29
	Slightly important	3	4	7
	Not important at all	0	4	4
	missing	11	5	16