Table 2 Percentage of respondents; ‘Please rate how important you feel the following issues are when communicating with patients as part of shared decision-making.’
Anaesthetics | Surgeons | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Think important | Routinely discuss | Think important | Routinely discuss | |
Estimated life expectancy with surgery | 93.75% | 77.08% | 100.00% | 82.22% |
Estimated life expectancy without surgery | 93.75% | 80.85% | 100.00% | 83.72% |
30-day mortality following surgery | 87.50% | 87.23% | 100.00% | 97.78% |
12-month mortality following surgery | 87.24% | 42.55% | 81.82% | 48.89% |
Risk of re-intervention | 87.24% | 66.67% | 97.78% | 100.00% |
Risk from general anaesthetic | 79.17% | 83.33% | 84.44% | 75.00% |
Risk from neuroaxial block | 74.47% | 75.00% | 66.67% | 37.78% |
Length of stay in hospital | 81.25% | 83.33% | 80.00% | 93.33% |
Perioperative cardiac risk | 89.58% | 91.67% | 95.55% | 95.56% |
Risk of acute kidney injury | 89.58% | 81.25% | 93.33% | 93.33% |
Risk of dialysis | 91.67% | 66.67% | 93.34% | 77.78% |
Risk of venous thromboembolism | 65.96% | 48.94% | 82.22% | 73.33% |
Risk of delirium | 78.72% | 56.25% | 57.77% | 27.27% |
Risk of functional deterioration postoperatively | 97.92% | 89.58% | 95.56% | 95.56% |