Financial Toxicity in the Clinical Encounter: A Paired Survey of Patient and Clinician Perceptions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the agreement between patient and clinician perceptions of care-related financial issues.

Patients and methods

We surveyed patient-clinician dyads immediately after an outpatient medical encounter between September 2019 and May 2021. They were asked to separately rate (1-10) patient's level of difficulty in paying medical bills and the importance of discussing cost issues with that patient during clinical encounters. We calculated agreement between patient-clinician ratings using the intraclass correlation coefficient and used random effects regression models to identify patient predictors of paired score differences in difficulty and importance of ratings.

Results

58 pairs of patients (n=58) and clinicians (n=40) completed the survey. Patient-cli

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Bautista A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10285501 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature