Table 3. Comparing priority ratings between kidney patients and clinicians for topics to which clinicians assigned high priority, but that were absent in patients’ top 10.
Abbreviations: N, number of respondents who rated the importance of a topic; SD, standard deviation
| KIDNEY PATIENTS | CLINICIANS | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nephrologists (N = 687) | Nurses (N = 194) | Surgeons & radiologists (N = 140) | ||||||||||
| Topic | N | Rank a) | Mean adjusted (SD) rating | Rank a) | Mean adjusted (SD) rating | P-value b) | Rank a) | Mean adjusted (SD) rating | P-value b) | Rank a) | Mean adjusted (SD) rating | P-value b) |
| Preservation of veins | 84 | 18 | 4.24 (0.51) | 3 | 4.45 (0.36) | < 0.01 | 2 | 4.43 (0.33) | < 0.01 | 2 | 4.56 (0.34) | < 0.001 |
| Central vein obstruction | 9 | 24 | 4.22 (0.26) | 6 | 4.40 (0.31) | 0.07 | 7 | 4.36 (0.29) | 0.13 | 7 | 4.41 (0.32) | 0.06 |
| Fistula/graft thrombosis | 76 | 11 | 4.31 (0.34) | 10 | 4.36 (0.34) | 0.18 | 5 | 4.40 (0.27) | 0.05 | 11 | 4.37 (0.35) | 0.19 |
| Fistula/graft stenosis | 76 | 20 | 4.24 (0.35) | 9 | 4.37 (0.34) | < 0.01 | 8 | 4.36 (0.29) | < 0.01 | 10 | 4.38 (0.34) | < 0.01 |
| Surveillance of fistula/graft (dys)function | 76 | 14 | 4.26 (0.30) | 12 | 4.34 (0.35) | 0.06 | 10 | 4.33 (0.34) | 0.12 | 12 | 4.33 (0.35) | 0.14 |
| Surgical techniques for fistula/graft creation | 75 | 33 | 4.10 (0.43) | 8 | 4.39 (0.35) | < 0.001 | 21 | 4.24 (0.43) | 0.02 | 3 | 4.54 (0.28) | < 0.001 |
| Timing of vascular access creation | 84 | 26 | 4.21 (0.39) | 7 | 4.39 (0.35) | < 0.001 | 22 | 4.24 (0.36) | 0.50 | 9 | 4.38 (0.33) | 0.013 |
| Perioperative fistula/graft thrombosis | 75 | 12 | 4.30 (0.37) | 20 | 4.29 (0.38) | 0.71 | 6 | 4.37 (0.34) | 0.18 | 21 | 4.26 (0.35) | 0.41 |
a) Ranking based on mean (standard deviation) standardized ratings
b) Based on two sample t-test of mean standardized ratings between patients and clinician group. P-values of <0.01 indicate a disagreement on priorities between patients and clinicians, with values between 0.010 and 0.014 being considered borderline significant.