An intervention to reassure patients about test results in rapid access chest pain clinic: a pilot randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most people referred to rapid access chest pain clinics have non-cardiac chest pain, and in those diagnosed with stable coronary heart disease, guidance recommends that first-line treatment is usually medication rather than revascularisation. Consequently, many patients are not reassured they have the correct diagnosis or treatment. A previous trial reported that, in people with non-cardiac chest pain, a brief discussion with a health psychologist before the tests about the meaning of potential results led to people being significantly more reassured. The aim of this pilot was to test study procedures and inform sample size for a future multi-centre trial and to gain initial estimates of effectiveness of the discussion intervention.

Methods

This was a two-arm pilo

SUBMITTER: Hicks K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4197216 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature