Table 2.
The Primary Outcome is patient satisfaction defined by the S-CAHPS questionnaire. Secondary Outcomes include adverse events, PFD-20 scores, and Pain scales.
| Outcomes | Clinic | Telephone | Non- inferiority limit |
P Value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Outcomes S-CAHPS* |
n | %Ŧ | (95% CI) | n | %Ŧ | (95% CI) | |||
| M1: Information to help you prepare for surgery (2 items) | 43 | 50.6 | (39.8-61.4) | 42 | 49.4 | (38.6-60.2) | 35.6 | 0.0039 | |
| M2: How well surgeon communicates with patients before surgery (4 items) | 43 48.9 | 48.9 | (38.2-59.5) | 45 | 51.1 | (40.5-61.8) | 33.9 | 0.0003 | |
| M3: Surgeon’s attentiveness on day of surgery (2 items) | 40 | 47.6 | (36.8-58.5) | 44 | 52.4 | (41.5-63.3) | 32.6 | <0.001 | |
| M4: Information to help you recover from surgery (4 items) | 37 | 48.7 | (37.3-60.1) | 39 | 51.3 | (39.9-62.8) | 33.7 | 0.0006 | |
| M5: How well surgeon communicates with patients after surgery (4 items) | 38 | 71.7 | (59.2-84.2) | 15 | 28.3 | (15.8-40.8) | 56.7 | 1.000 | |
| M6: Helpful, courteous, and respectful staff at surgeon’s office (2 items) | 46 | 50.0 | (39.6-60.4) | 46 | 50.0 | (39.6-60.4) | 35.0 | 0.0013 | |
| M7: Rating of surgeon (1 item) | 46 | 51.1 | (40.6-61.6) | 44 | 48.9 | (38.4-59.4) | 36.1 | 0.0058 | |
| Secondary Outcomes | n | % | (95% CI) | n | % | (95% CI) | |||
| Adverse Events (n=26)† | 15 | 30.0 | (18.3-44.8) | 11 | 22.0 | (12.0-36.3) | 0. 36 | ||
| Adverse Events† | 0.36 | ||||||||
| UTI | 8 | 53.3 | (27.4-77.7) | 7 | 63.6 | (31.6-87.6) | |||
| Readmission | 2 | 13.3 | (2.3-41.6) | 2 | 18.2 | (3.2-52.3) | |||
| Reoperation within 3 m | 1 | 6.7 | (0.4-34.0) | 1 | 9.1 | (0.5-42.9) | |||
| Intraop complications | 0 | 0.0 | (0.0-25.4) | 0 | 0.0 | (0.0-32.2) | |||
| Other Adverse Events | 4 | 26.7 | (8.9-55.2) | 1 | 9.1 | (0.5-42.9) | |||
| mean | (95% CI) | mean | (95% CI) | ||||||
| PFDI-20 Total Score | T0§ | 110.7 | (94.5-126.9) | 112.3 | (96.1-128.5) | 0.45 | |||
| T3∥ | 39.2 | (26.3-52.2) | 49.4 | (36.5-62.4) | |||||
| POPDI (1-6) | TO | 36.5 | (29.5-43.5) | 38.4 | (31.4-45.4) | 0.89 | |||
| T3 | 11.2 | (7.3-15.1) | 12.5 | (8.6-16.4) | |||||
| CRADI (7-14) | TO | 23.4 | (17.6-29.1) | 21.2 | (15.4-27.0) | 0.08 | |||
| T3 | 10.4 | (6.0-14.9) | 14.3 | (9.8-18.7) | |||||
| UDI (15-20) | TO | 50.8 | (43.2-58.5) | 52.7 | (45.0-60.3) | 0.60 | |||
| T3 | 17.6 | (11.0-24.2) | 22.7 | (16.1-29.2) | |||||
| Pain: At Rest | TO | 1.7 | (1.0-2.5) | 2.4 | (1.6-3.1) | 0.30 | |||
| T3 | 1.4 | (0.7-2.1) | 1.5 | (0.8-2.2) | |||||
| Pain: Normal | TO | 2.8 | (1.9-3.8) | 3.5 | (2.6-4.5) | 0.47 | |||
| Activity | T3 | 1.6 | (0.8-2.3) | 1.8 | (1.0-2.5) | ||||
| Pain: Exercise, | TO | 2.6 | (1.4-3.8) | 3.7 | (2.4-5.0) | 0.30 | |||
| Strenuous Work | T3 | 1.6 | (0.8-2.5) | 1.8 | (0.9-2.8) | ||||
| Pain: Worst Pain | TO | 3.1 | (2.08-4.16) | 3.8 | (2.8-4.8) | 0.47 | |||
| Today | T3 | 1.9 | (1.02-2.86) | 2.0 | (1.1-2.9) | ||||
*
%=row percent;
†
%=column percent;
Ŧ
percentage of respondents giving a “top box” answer to the S-CAHPS questionnaires;
§
T0= preoperative scores;
∥
T3= postoperative scores at 3 months