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Fig. 8

From: Perspective of potential patients on the hospital volume-outcome relationship and the minimum volume threshold for total knee arthroplasty: a qualitative focus group and interview study

Fig. 8

Personalised hospital risk sheet for discussion of results from our systematic review. The figure shows an example of a personalised hospital risk sheet. We presented the results of our systematic review in the context of real case numbers from three actual hospitals located in the residence area of each participant. The first hospital was always the nearest, which – by chance – was always the one with the smallest case number for TKAs, the second hospital was intermediate regarding both distance and case number for TKAs, while the third hospital was always the furthest one with the highest case number for TKAs. aReal case numbers for TKAs per hospital. These values were only given to the interviewees during the interview to avoid influencing the first questions of the interview regarding the estimation of case numbers. bValues computed based on the preliminary results of our systematic review. TKA = total knee arthroplasty

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