Time to be BRAVE: is educating surgeons the key to unlocking the potential of randomised clinical trials in surgery? A qualitative study

Table 1 Demographics of health-care professional study participants

	Oncoplastic breast surgeons	Plastic surgeons	Clinical nurse specialists	Clinical psychologists
	(n = 11)	(n = 11)	(n = 11)	(n = 2)
Gender
Male	8	9	0	0
Female	3	2	11	2
Years as consultant/CNS ^a experience
<5 years	4	1	5	2
6 to 15 years	3	6	6	0
>15 years	4	4	0	0
Median (range)	14 (0 to 23)^b	13 (4 to 29)	6 (1 to 12)	1 (0 to 1)
Number of BRs performed per year
<20	4^c	1	NA	NA
20 to 50	3	5
>50	4	5
Median (range)	30 (0 to 200)	40 (10 to 290)

^aCNS, Clinical nurse specialist; NA, Not applicable. ^bThis group included one senior trainee not yet appointed as a consultant. ^cThis group included two surgeons who did not perform breast reconstruction surgery.

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