Pre-consultation educational group intervention to improve shared decision-making in postmastectomy breast reconstruction: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Pre-Consultation Educational Group INTERVENTION pilot study seeks to assess the feasibility and inform the optimal design for a definitive randomized controlled trial that aims to improve the quality of decision-making in postmastectomy breast reconstruction patients.

Methods/design

This is a mixed-methods pilot feasibility randomized controlled trial that will follow a single-center, 1:1 allocation, two-arm parallel group superiority design.

Setting

The University Health Network, a tertiary care cancer center in Toronto, Canada.

Participants

Adult women referred to one of three plastic and reconstructive surgeons for delayed breast reconstruction or prophylactic mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction.

Intervention

We designed a m

SUBMITTER: Platt J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3708760 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature