Following carpel tunnel release, what factors affect whether patients return to the same or different hand surgeon for a subsequent procedure?
Over fifteen percent of patients who required a subsequent CTR or TFR following CTR did not return to the same surgeon. Understanding what factors lead to outmigration of patients form a practice may help direct efforts for patient retention.
Authors
- Peter Y. Joo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4370-0720)
- Scott J. Halperin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0621-7716)
- Jonathan Newman Grauer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2626-7278)
- Neil Pathak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8300-0820)
- Xuan Luo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7838-2489)
- Meera M. Dhodapkar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3049-4588)
Institutions
- Yale University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2024-10-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312159
- Primary Topic
- Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00