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What is Surgery?

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Other 13 2 Efficacy_none Efficacy_cant_tell
Pain 13 4 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_cant_tell
Support quality of life 6 0
Torn Meniscus of Knee 3 1 Efficacy_moderate
Gallbladder removal (Cholecystectomy) 3 0
Doctor recommendation 2 0

See all 17 patients currently having Surgery

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 10
Moderate
 5
Mild
 7
None
 5

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Surgery

Hospitalization 16
Pain in feet 2
Pain 2
recovery time-6weeks 2
Hospitalization 2
Hot flashes 1
See all 35 reported side effects ▼ See top 6 reported side effects ▲

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Having Surgery (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Not indicated 76   Not indicated: 87%
Other 4   Other: 5%
Course of treatment ended 4   Course of treatment ended: 5%
Doctor's advice 2   Doctor's advice: 2%

See all 86 patients who’ve stopped having Surgery

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Having Surgery

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0

Stopped Having Surgery

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Surgery

Always
 19 70%
Usually
 2 7%
Sometimes
 3 11%
Never
 3 11%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Surgery

Very
 9 33%
Somewhat
 9 33%
A little
 4 15%
Not at all
 5 19%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Surgery

$200+
 7 50%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 5 36%

Report created on May 27, 2012.