Decision aid use during post-biopsy consultations for localized prostate cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Decision Aids (DAs) effectively translate medical evidence for patients but are not routinely used in clinical practice. Little is known about how DAs are used during patient-clinician encounters.

Objective

To characterize the content and communicative function of high-quality DAs during diagnostic clinic visits for prostate cancer.

Participants

252 men newly diagnosed with localized prostate cancer who had received a DA, 45 treating physicians at 4 US Veterans Administration urology clinics.

Methods

Qualitative analysis of transcribed audio recordings was used to inductively develop categories capturing content and function of all direct references to DAs (booklet talk). The presence or absence of any booklet talk per transcript was also calculated.

SUBMITTER: Holmes-Rovner M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5750733 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature