Effect of a Peer Comparison and Educational Intervention on Medical Test Conversation Quality: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Medical test overuse and resulting care cascades represent a costly, intractable problem associated with inadequate patient-clinician communication. One possible solution with potential for broader benefits is priming routine, high-quality medical test conversations.

Objective

To assess if a peer comparison and educational intervention for physicians and patients improved medical test conversations during annual visits.

Design, setting, and participants

Randomized clinical trial and qualitative evaluation at an academic medical center conducted May 2021 to October 2022. Twenty primary care physicians (PCPs) were matched-pair randomized. For each physician, at least 10 patients with scheduled visits were enrolled. Data were analyzed from December 2022 to Sep

SUBMITTER: Ganguli I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10636635 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature