Table 5.

Patients themes

Issues that Emerged from Past Experience of Preoperative Risk Assessment Discussions	The Overall Opinion of the SURPAS tool	Potential Concerns with Having Risk Assessment Information
Some patients needed more information than others	All patients liked SURPAS. Patients wanted to have a visual display of the risk to take home; They preferred the pictogram of 100 patients	Patients had mixed reactions to the question, “Would you still have the operation if your risk is high?”
A feeling of being overwhelmed with the information - Not being able to remember details after the clinic visit	They believed it would be informative for relaying individual surgical risks	An additional concern existed over the scenario where the estimated risks were low but the patient still suffered a complication
Information should be given to caregivers or family members	SURPAS facilitates understanding of their individual risk of complications, compared to an average risk