Table 3.

Responses of surveyed patients to questions about decision making for their surgery²¹

Question and possible responses	Number of respondents (%) with positive (yes) response
	Overall (n=500)	White (n=222)	Black (n=142)	English- speaking Hispanic (n=89)	Spanish- speaking Hispanic (n-47)	p-valuea
Location and reputation
Other than the hospital where you had your surgery, were there any other hospitals in your area where you could have had the operation?	64	68	59	61	66	.21
Were any of the other hospitals closer to where you lived than the hospital where you had your breast surgery?	44	47	47	34	47	.10
Which was more important when choosing the hospital you went to:						<.0001
Reputation more than location	51	60	45	55	23
Location more important than reputation or both equally important	49	40	55	45	77
Ratings of care
How would you rate the quality of care received by your surgeon for your breast cancer surgery?						.37
Excellent	77	78	75	81	68
Very good/good/fair/poor	23	22	25	19	32
How likely would you be to recommend this surgeon to a friend or family member who needed the same operation you had?						.11
Extremely likely	68	72	62	73	62
Very likely/a little likely/not at all likely	32	28	38	27	38
How would you rate the quality of your overall experience at this hospital?b						.87
Excellent	63	63	64	63	57
Very good/good/fair/poor	37	37	36	38	43
How likely would you be to recommend this hospital to a friend or family member who needed the same operation you had?						.95
Extremely likely	56	57	58	54	55
Very likely/a little likely/not at all likely	44	43	42	46	45
How do you think the hospital where you had your surgery compares to other hospitals in your area?						.38
Best	21	20	20	25	26
Better than most	28	32	27	24	17
About same/worse than most/I don’t know	51	48	53	52	58

^aBy chi-square testing, unadjusted

^bOne English-speaking Hispanic women did not answer this question