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The (commercialised) experience of operating: embodied preferences, ambiguous variations and explaining widespread patient harm.
March 8, 2023
Ducey A, Donoso C, Ross S, et al. Sociol Health Illn. 2023;45(2):346-365.
Research has identified variations in treatment that are unlikely to be related to patient characteristics, such as region. In this study, surgeons describe their preferences for and experiences with a device which caused widespread harm to women and was ultimately recalled by several patient safety agencies: transvaginal mesh for the treatment of pelvic floor devices in women. Even when surgeons arrived at the same decision (to perform surgery or not), wide variations were observed during the decision-making process.
