Prevalence of and Factors Associated With Patient Nondisclosure of Medically Relevant Information to Clinicians.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patient failure to disclose medically relevant information to clinicians can undermine patient care or even lead to patient harm.

Objective

To examine the frequency of patients failing to disclose to their clinicians information that is relevant to their care and their reasons for doing so.

Design, setting, and participants

Two national nonprobability samples were recruited to participate in an online survey, one using Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) from March 16 to 30, 2015 (2096 respondents), followed by one using Survey Sampling International (SSI) from November 6 to 17, 2015 (3011 respondents). Data analysis was conducted from September 28 to October 8, 2018. After dropping respondents meeting the exclusion criteria, the final sample sizes were 2011 (

SUBMITTER: Levy AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324389 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature