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

Table 6 Subgroup Analysis of Survey Responses for Scenarios A-H by Subgroups of Education and Illness Severity

	Education					CCN Urgency Scale
Scenario	High school or less		Post-secondary		Fisher's exact p-value	Emergent/Semi-Urgent		Elective		Fisher's exact p-value
	Mean*	SD	Mean*	SD		Mean*	SD	Mean*	SD
A: exactly the same as respondent	1.63	0.74	1.71	0.46	0.0943	1.67	0.49	1.75	0.67	1.0000
A2: admitted to hospital with increasing angina	3.11	0.75	3.18	0.72	1.0000	3.17	0.71	3.13	0.75	0.4726
B: 85 yrs old	2.54	0.86	1.96	1.10	0.0889	2.06	0.80	2.29	1.07	0.4420
C: 85 yrs old, mild dementia, living at home with home care support	2.59	1.08	2.29	1.05	0.8172	2.39	0.98	2.44	0.98	0.9483
D: 86 yrs old, severe dementia, living in nursing home	2.08	1.41	2.07	1.27	0.8605	1.89	1.18	2.17	1.32	0.8335
E: 35 yrs old	2.15	1.08	1.96	1.00	0.6388	2.17	0.86	2.06	1.15	0.2863
F: 35 yrs old, married with 4 children and only income earner for family	3.04	0.82	2.64	1.03	0.7009	3.06	0.80	2.71	1.01	0.8935
G: 35 yrs old, unmarried, unemployed on welfare	1.89	1.12	1.54	0.79	0.2820	1.83	0.71	1.81	1.06	0.4569
H: donated $5 million dollars to the hospital foundation	1.69	0.62	1.85	0.66	0.7337	2.00	0.50	1.84	0.69	0.2157

*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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