Table 4 Excerpts from recruitment consultations: recruiter responses to patient treatment preferences

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”