Engaging Patients to Ask More Questions: What's the Best Way? A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Hand conditions are common, and often require a discussion of the tradeoffs of different treatment options. Our goal was to evaluate whether providing patients with a Question Prompt List (QPL) for common hand conditions improves their perceived involvement in care compared with providing patients with 3 generic questions.

Methods

We performed a prospective, single-center, pragmatic randomized controlled trial. We created a QPL pamphlet for patients with common hand conditions. New patients with common hand conditions were enrolled between April 2019 and July 2019 and were randomized into either the QPL group (with 35 hand-specific questions) or the AskShareKnow group (3 generic questions: [1] What are my options? [2] What are the possible benefits and harms of those

SUBMITTER: Roe AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8429060 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature