Effect of chair placement on physicians' behavior and patients' satisfaction: randomized deception trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effect of chair placement on length of time physicians sit during a bedside consultation and patients' satisfaction.

Design

Single center, double blind, randomized controlled deception trial.

Setting

County hospital in Texas, USA.

Participants

51 hospitalist physicians providing direct care services, and 125 observed encounters of patients who could answer four orientation questions correctly before study entry, April 2022 to February 2023.

Intervention

Each patient encounter was randomized to either chair placement (≤3 feet (0.9 m) of patient's bedside and facing the bed) or usual chair location (control).

Main outcome measures

The primary outcome was the binary decision of the physician to sit or not sit at any point du

SUBMITTER: Iyer R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10726223 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature