Patient and physician perception of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic appendectomy

Table 1 Characteristics of survey participants n (%)

	Patients	Physicians
Age (yr)	52 (mean)	41 (mean)
Men	56 (56)	53 (53)
Education
Graduate	28 (28)	100 (100)
High school	58 (58)	0 (0)
Elementary school	14 (14)	0 (0)
Heard of NOTES	7 (7)a	73 (73)
Prior endoscopy	88 (88)a	36 (36)
Prior laparoscopy	20 (20)	9 (9)
NOTES preference	50 (50)a	21 (21)
Laparoscopy preference	50 (50)a	79 (79)
Reasons for preference
Pain	33 (66)	11 (52)
Cosmesis	15 (30)	11 (52)
Absence of hernia	22 (44)a	17 (80)
Access site preference
Colon	25 (50)	12 (57)
Stomach	19 (38)	8 (38)
Vagina	6 (12)	1 (5)
Approval of wife’s NOTES	42/49 (86)a	29/46 (63)

^aP < 0.05 vs physicians. NOTES: Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery.

Table 2 Association between participant characteristics and natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery preference

	Odds ratio	P value	Confidence interval
Female	1.473	0.259	0.785-2.761
Age	0.985	0.587	0.960-1.011
High school education1	2.678	0.003	1.230-5.826
Elementary education1	3.222	0.003	0.907-11.444
Heard of NOTES	1.138	0.412	0.516-2.509
Prior colonoscopy	2.098	0.032	1.050-4.192
Prior laparoscopy	1.462	0.412	0.584-3.659

¹University education serving as baseline. NOTES: Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery.