Association of Decision-making with Patients' Perceptions of Care and Knowledge during Longitudinal Pulmonary Nodule Surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Patient participation in medical decision-making is widely advocated, but outcomes are inconsistent.

Objectives

We examined the associations between medical decision-making roles, and patients' perceptions of their care and knowledge while undergoing pulmonary nodule surveillance.

Methods

The study setting was an academically affiliated Veterans Affairs hospital network in which 121 participants had 319 decision-making encounters. The Control Preferences Scale was used to assess patients' decision-making roles. Associations between decision-making, including role concordance (i.e., agreement between patients' preferred and actual roles), shared decision-making (SDM), and perceptions of care and knowledge, were assessed using logistic regression and generaliz

SUBMITTER: Sullivan DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5711278 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature