Surgeon regret and shared decision-making for hepatopancreatobiliary cancer: A survey of Australia and New Zealand.

Abstract

Surgical decision-making is complex, particularly for cancer op-erations. Decision regret includes feelings of remorse or distresswith a sense that a better outcome might have been achieved ifa different approach was taken [1, 2]. Shared decision-makingand occasional decision regret by either the surgeon or the pa-tient are especially relevant for hepatic, pancreatic, and biliary(HPB) cancer surgery. A prospective, cross-sectional electronicanonymous survey study (Supporting Information: Appendix)was conducted after the 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting of theAANZHPBA in Sydney, Australia [3], aiming to characterizedecision regret and shared decision-making from the surgeon'sperspective in relation to HPB cancer surgery.