Protocol for the Osteoporosis Choice trial. A pilot randomized trial of a decision aid in primary care practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bisphosphonates can reduce fracture risk in patients with osteoporosis, but many at-risk patients do not start or adhere to these medications. The aims of this study are to: (1) preliminarily evaluate the effect of an individualized 10-year osteoporotic fracture risk calculator and decision aid (OSTEOPOROSIS CHOICE) for postmenopausal women at risk for osteoporotic fractures; and (2) assess the feasibility and validity (i.e., absence of contamination) of patient-level randomization (vs. cluster randomization) in pilot trials of decision aid efficacy.

Methods/design

This is a protocol for a parallel, 2-arm, randomized trial to compare an intervention group receiving OSTEOPOROSIS CHOICE to a control group receiving usual primary care. Postmenopausal women with bone

SUBMITTER: Pencille LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2796658 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature