Digital Recording and Documentation of Endoscopic Procedures: Do Patients and Doctors Think Alike?

Table 1

Patients’ population: demographic data.

	Interested in of the procedure	Not interested in of the procedure	value
Age
Mean ± SD, years			0.088
Range, years	19–84	20–85
Gender, N (%)
Male	135 (48.7%)	56 (41.2%)	0.14
Female	142 (51.3%)	80 (58.8%)
Place of birth, N (%)
Israel	162 (58.9%)	87 (63%)	0.16
West Europe and USA	10 (3.6%)	4 (2.9%)
East Europe	61 (22.2%)	19 (13.8%)
Other	42 (15.3%)	28 (20.3%)
Ethnicity, N (%)
Jews	217 (80.4%)	113 (81.3%)	0.78
Muslims	15 (5.6%)	4 (2.9%)
Druze	11 (4.1%)	6 (4.3%)
Christians	23 (8.5%)	13 (9.4%)
Other	4 (1.5%)	3 (2.2%)
Family status, N (%)
Single	27 (10.2%)	14 (10.2%)	0.6
Married	183 (68.8%)	91 (66.4%)
Widowed	25 (9.4%)	10 (7.3%)
Divorced	31 (11.7%)	22 (16.1%)
Education, N (%)
Primary school	29 (11%)	22 (16.4%)	0.13
High school	112 (42.6%)	62 (46.3%)
Academic	122 (46.4%)	50 (37.3%)
Employment, N (%)
Unemployed	31 (12%)	24 (17.9%)	0.29
Employee	109 (42.1%)	59 (44%)
Self-employed	32 (12.4%)	15 (11.2%)
Retired	87 (33.6%)	36 (26.9%)
Monthly income, N (%)
<10,000 NIS	149 (64.5%)	73 (67%)	0.45
10,001–20,000 NIS	63 (27.3%)	29 (26.6%)
>20,000 NIS	19 (8.2%)	7 (6.4%)
Total, (%)	277 (66.4%)	140 (33.6%)

: digital recording and documentation.