Are surgeons and anesthesiologists lying to each other or gaming the system? A national random sample survey about “truth-telling practices” in the perioperative setting in the United States

Table 5 Justifications considered “Very Important” when misrepresentation was acknowledged (*)

Rationale	Anesthesiologist		Surgeon		p value
Patient’s Best Interest	11/60	18 %	2/19	11 %	0.685
Information Not Clinically Relevant	49/79	62 %	16/39	41 %	0.031
Already Attending to Issue	40/82	49 %	7/33	21 %	0.007
Counterpart Would Not Understand	27/81	33 %	5/26	19 %	0.172
Counterpart Would Demand Unreasonable Tx	25/82	31 %	8/29	28 %	0.769
Would be Blamed or Chastised	5/78	6 %	0/26	0 %	0.459
Not A Good Time to Discuss	31/82	38 %	8/31	26 %	0.232
Concerned About Legal Consequences	15/71	21 %	10/32	31 %	0.269

*Percent of respondents acknowledging a survey item as a justification for mis-reporting who considered the justification to be “very important”
*N’s are different because more than one item could be acknowledged as a justification

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