Discrete choice experiment reveals key factors influencing surgical preferences in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa, highlighting their importance.
Of the evaluated attributes, effectiveness for improvement, recurrence risk, out-of-pocket costs and post-surgical wound care contributed most to patient preference. Surgeons should account for these aspects of procedures when offering surgical interventions. Studies of surgical outcomes should place high value on these aspects of procedural outcomes.
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