Patient Participation in Surgical Treatment Decision Making from the Patients' Perspective: Validation of an Instrument

Table 1

Participants characteristics.

Profession	Ward/surgery	Practice (years)	Earlier surgery	Sex	Age	Education/profession
Physician	Internship	1		F	28
Physician	Internship	1		M	28
Physician	Tub/thorax	10		M	40
Physician	Orthopaedic	27		M	59
Nurse	Urologic	3		F	27
Nurse	Gastrologic	2		F	26
Nurse	Central-surgery unit	21		F	43
Nurse	Central-surgery unit	28		F	51
Nurse	Day-surgery unit	32		F	54
Nurse	Orthopaedic	35		F	58
Nurse	Day-surgery unit	40		F	62
Patient	Back operation		Yes, back operation	F	51	BSc nursing
Patient	Ventricle-bowel operation		Yes, two on same issue	F	60
Patient	Hip replacement		No	F	63
Patient	Ovaries hysterectomy		Mastectomy cancer mamma	F	65	MSc in teaching
Patient	Kidney transplantation		Yes, kidney transplantation	M	49	Bookkeeper
Patient	Gastrectomy cancer ventriculi		Arm surgery when young	M	61	Engineer
Patient	Urological operation		Yes, kidney stone operation	M	62	MSc engineering