Triage for coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Canada: Do patients agree on who should come first?

Table 5 Subgroup analysis of Survey Responses for Scenarios A-H by Subgroups of Age and Gender

	Age					Gender
Scenario	< 67 yrs old		>= 67 yrs old		Fisher's exact p-value	Male		Female		Fisher's exact p-value
	Mean*	SD	Mean*	SD		Mean*	SD	Mean*	SD
A: exactly the same as respondent	1.93	0.65	1.52	0.57	0.0367	1.78	0.62	1.61	0.70	0.1177
A2: admitted to hospital with increasing angina	3.29	0.71	3.00	0.74	0.2955	3.21	0.77	3.00	0.67	0.1328
B: 85 yrs old	2.21	1.13	2.28	0.92	0.3274	2.31	1.06	2.11	0.96	0.1719
C: 85 yrs old, mild dementia, living at home with home care support	2.46	0.92	2.47	1.20	0.6225	2.51	1.00	2.37	1.21	0.3738
D: 85 yrs old, severe dementia, living in nursing home	1.82	1.36	2.36	1.31	0.0662	2.31	1.30	1.59	1.37	0.2936
E: 35 yrs old	2.21	0.83	1.90	1.23	0.0360	1.95	1.05	2.28	1.07	0.8809
F: 35 yrs old, married with 4 children and only income earner for family	2.96	0.79	2.62	1.08	0.6340	2.69	1.00	3.00	0.84	0.9325
G: 35 yrs old, unmarried, unemployed on welfare	1.89	0.92	1.50	1.04	0.3554	1.64	0.93	1.79	1.13	0.6895
H: donated $5 million dollars to the hospital foundation	1.79	0.57	1.82	0.72	0.3069	1.79	0.62	1.83	0.71	0.7207

*answer scale: 0 = very far behind you, 1 = a little bit behind you, 2 = your place, 3 = a little bit ahead of you, 4 = very far ahead of you SD = standard deviation
CCN = Cardiac Care Network (of Ontario)

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