Table 4 Excerpts from recruitment consultations: recruiter responses to patient treatment preferences
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Example consultation 1 (surgeon C, centre 1): Patient 16: “I think I’d like to have, would prefer to have, limited fasciectomy.” Surgeon C: “No, that’s absolutely fine” Example consultation 2 (surgeon B, centre 2): Patient 6: [referring to LF surgery] “When I look at all this scarring and everything, I think it looks really ugly…. And the fact is that it [Dupuytren’s contracture] will come back anyway.” Surgeon B: “Yes.” Patient 6: “I think probably I would prefer the needle….” Surgeon B: “Okay” |