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Different but Similar: Personality Traits of Surgeons and Internists. Results of a Cross-Sectional Observational Study
Objectives: Medical practice may attract and possibly enhance distinct personality profiles.
We set out to describe the personality profiles of surgical and medical specialties focusing on board-certified physicians.
Design: Prospective, observational.
Setting: Online survey containing the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI), an internationally validated measure of the Five Factor Model of personality dimensions, distributed to board-certified physicians, residents and medical students in several European countries and Canada. Differences in personality profiles were analyzed using MANOVA and Canonical Linear Discriminant Analysis on age- and sex-standardized z-scores of the personality traits. Single personality traits were analyzed using robust t-tests.
Participants: The TIPI was completed by 2345 board-certified physicians, 1453 residents and 1350 medical students, who also provided demographic information.
Interventions: None.
Results: Normal population and board-certified physicians’ personality profiles differed (P<0.001). The latter scored higher on conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness, but lower on neuroticism (all P<0.001). There was no difference in openness to experience. Board-certified surgical and medical doctors’ personality profiles were also different (P<0.001). Surgeons scored higher on extraversion (P=0.003) and openness to experience (P=0.002), but lower on neuroticism (P<0.001). There was no difference in agreeableness and conscientiousness. These differences in personality profiles were reproduced at other levels of training, i.e., in students and training physicians engaging in surgical versus medical practice.
Conclusion: These results indicate the existence of a distinct and consistent average “physician personality”. Despite high variability within disciplines, there are moderate, but solid and reproducible differences between surgical and medical specialties
Distance to first symptoms measured by the 6-min walking test differentiates between treatment success and failure in patients with degenerative lumbar disorders
PURPOSE
The smartphone-based 6-min walking test (6WT) is an established digital outcome measure in patients undergoing surgery for degenerative lumbar disorders (DLD). In addition to the 6WTs primary outcome measure, the 6-min walking distance (6WD), the patient's distance to first symptoms (DTFS) and time to first symptoms (TTFS) can be recorded. This is the first study to analyse the psychometric properties of the DTFS and TTFS.
METHODS
Forty-nine consecutive patients (55 ± 15.8 years) completed the 6WT pre- and 6 weeks (W6) postoperative. DTFS and TTFS were assessed for reliability and content validity using disease-specific patient-reported outcome measures. The Zurich Claudication Questionnaire patient satisfaction subscale was used as external criterion for treatment success. Internal and external responsiveness for both measures at W6 was evaluated.
RESULTS
There was a significant improvement in DTFS and TTFS from baseline to W6 (p < 0.001). Both measures demonstrated a good test-retest reliability (β = 0.86, 95% CI 0.81-0.90 and β = 0.83, 95% CI 0.76-0.87, both p < 0.001). The DTFS exceeded the 6WD capability to differentiate between satisfied (82%) and unsatisfied patients (18%) with an AUC of 0.75 (95% CI 0.53-0.98) vs. 0.70 (95% CI 0.52-0.90). The TTFS did not demonstrate meaningful discriminative abilities.
CONCLUSION
Change in DTFS can differentiate between satisfied and unsatisfied patients after spine surgery. Digital outcome measures on the 6WT metric provide spine surgeons and researchers with a mean to assess their patient's functional disability and response to surgical treatment in DLD
Different but similar: personality traits of surgeons and internists-results of a cross-sectional observational study
OBJECTIVES: Medical practice may attract and possibly enhance distinct personality profiles. We set out to describe the personality profiles of surgical and medical specialties focusing on board-certified physicians.
DESIGN: Prospective, observational.
SETTING: Online survey containing the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI), an internationally validated measure of the Five Factor Model of personality dimensions, distributed to board-certified physicians, residents and medical students in several European countries and Canada. Differences in personality profiles were analysed using multivariate analysis of variance and Canonical Linear Discriminant Analysis on age-standardised and sex-standardised z-scores of the personality traits. Single personality traits were analysed using robust t-tests.
PARTICIPANTS: The TIPI was completed by 2345 board-certified physicians, 1453 residents and 1350 medical students, who also provided demographic information.
RESULTS: Normal population and board-certified physicians' personality profiles differed (p<0.001). The latter scored higher on conscientiousness, extraversion and agreeableness, but lower on neuroticism (all p<0.001). There was no difference in openness to experience. Board-certified surgical and medical doctors' personality profiles were also different (p<0.001). Surgeons scored higher on extraversion (p=0.003) and openness to experience (p=0.002), but lower on neuroticism (p<0.001). There was no difference in agreeableness and conscientiousness. These differences in personality profiles were reproduced at other levels of training, that is, in students and training physicians engaging in surgical versus medical practice.
CONCLUSION: These results indicate the existence of a distinct and consistent average 'physician personality'. Despite high variability within disciplines, there are moderate but solid and reproducible differences between surgical and medical specialities
Longitudinal smartphone-based self-assessment of objective functional impairment in patients undergoing surgery for lumbar degenerative disc disease: initial experience
BACKGROUND: The worldwide spread of smartphone usage enables new possibilities for longitudinal monitoring of objective functional impairment (OFI) in patients undergoing surgery for lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD).
METHODS: Three patients, undergoing elective surgery for lumbar DDD, self-assessed OFI using a recently validated 6-min walking test (6WT) smartphone application. Results are presented as raw 6-min walking distance (6WD) as well as in reference to age- and sex-specific healthy population reference values using standardized z-scores (number of standard deviations). In parallel, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), including numeric rating scale (NRS) leg-pain and Core Outcome Measures Index (COMI) were obtained before (pre) and 6 weeks (6 W) as well as 3 months (3 M) after surgery. Descriptive analyses were used to compare PROMs with repeated 6WT measurements over time. The feasibility and benefits of the longitudinal OFI measurements using the 6WT app are discussed.
RESULTS: One patient presented a favorable outcome, reflected by a clinically meaningful improvement in PROMs. Correspondingly, the 6WT distance gradually improved above the normal population values ((pre 399 m (z-score - 1.96) vs. 6 W 494 m (- 0.85) vs. 3 M 557 m (- 0.1)). One patient experienced initial improvement at 6 W, followed by a decline in 6WD at 3 M which promoted further interventions with subsequent recovery ((358 m (z-score - 3.29) vs 440 m (- 2.2) vs 431 m (- 2.32) vs 471 m (- 1.78)). The last patient showed a lack of improvement in PROMs as well as in OFI (360 m (z-score 0.0) vs 401 m (0.30) vs 345 m (- 0.11)) resulting in secondary surgery.
CONCLUSION: The longitudinal assessment of OFI using the 6WT app was feasible and provided the physician with a detailed history of patients' postoperative walking capacity complementing commonly used PROMs
Assessment of the Minimum Clinically Important Difference in the Smartphone-based 6-minute Walking Test After Surgery for Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease
STUDY DESIGN
Prospective cohort study.
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to determine the minimum clinically important difference (MCID) of the 6-minute walking test (6WT) after surgery for lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD).
SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA
The smartphone-based 6WT is a valid and reliable tool to quantify objective functional impairment in patients with lumbar DDD. To date, the MCID of the 6WT has not been described in patients with DDD.
METHODS
We assessed patients pre- and 6-weeks postoperatively, analyzing both raw 6-minute walking distances (6WD; in meters) and standardized 6WT z scores. Three methods were applied to compute MCID values using established patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) as anchors (VAS back/leg pain, Zurich Claudication Questionnaire [ZCQ], Core Outcome Measures Index [COMI]): average change, minimum detectable change, and the change difference approach.
RESULT
We studied 49 patients (59% male) with a mean age of 55.5 ± 15.8 years. The computation methods revealed MCID values ranging from 81 m (z score of 0.9) based on the VAS back pain to 99 m (z score of 1.0) based on the ZCQ physical function scale. The average MCID of the 6WT was 92 m (z score of 1.0). Based on the average MCID of raw 6WD values or standardized z scores, 53% or 49% of patients classified as 6-week responders to surgery for lumbar DDD, respectively.
CONCLUSION
The MCID for the 6WT in lumbar DDD patients is variable, depending on the calculation technique. We propose a MCID of 92m (z score of 1.0), based on the average of all three methods. Using a z score as MCID allows for the standardization of clinically meaningful change and attenuates age- and sex-related differences.Level of Evidence: 3
Digital transformation in spine research and outcome assessment
Letter to the Editor Digital transformation in spine research and outcome assessmen