Table 4.

Percentage of patients and surgeons who considered each type of information essential for patients to make decisions about surgery

	Standard		Laparoscopic		Robotic		P-value*
	Patients	Surgeons	Patients	Surgeons	Patients	Surgeons
Overall description of procedure
General description of procedure	65%	58%†	68%	58%‡	72%	60%§	<0.001
Technical details of procedure	48%	13%§	52%	16%§	57%	20%§	<0.001
Clear statement procedure is either new or standard	57%	51%†	62%	53%‡	63%	65%||	<0.001
Overall risks and benefits
Risks	77%	72%‡	79%	72%‡	77%	75%†	0.066
Benefits	71%	65%‡	74%	67%‡	72%	62%§	0.140
Risks unknown	75%	66%§	78%	69%‡	75%	78%||	0.022
Benefits unknown	69%	62%†	74%	64%‡	70%	69%||	0.0009
Other surgeons’ experience
Number of times procedure done by others	41%	15%§	47%	19%§	56%	39%§	<0.001
Other surgeons’ outcomes	44%	20%§	49%	21%§	54%	28%§	<0.001
Surgeon’s own experience
Number of times procedure done	63%	25%§	66%	31%§	68%	41%§	<0.001
Surgeon’s own outcomes	63%	34%§	66%	34%§	67%	44%§	<0.001
Surgeon’s first time	79%	55%§	81%	59%§	78%	64%§	0.064
Surgeon’s special training	64%	31%§	68%	34%§	71%	44%§	<0.001
Overall surgeon’s personal interest
Plans to publish article	24%	6%§	24%	7%§	24%	8%§	0.008
Doing research	27%	20%||	28%	21%||	28%	26%||	<0.001
Paid consultant	51%	40%‡	52%	41%‡	52%	42%‡	<0.001

^*Comparison of the percentage of patients who rated each type of information “extremely important” for standard versus robotic surgery, using repeated measures logistic regression.

^†Pearson’s χ² comparing percentage of patients and surgeons p < 0.05

^‡Pearson’s χ² comparing percentage of patients and surgeons p ≤ 0.01

^§Pearson’s χ² comparing percentage of patients and surgeons p ≤ 0.001

^||Pearson’s χ² comparing percentage of patients and surgeons p ≥ 0.05, not a significant difference