Patients' and physicians' disagreement on patients' understanding of clinical cancer trial information: a pairwise pilot study of mirroring subjective assessments compared with objective measurements.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Informed consent is a prerequisite for patients included in clinical trials. Trial design, inclusion criteria and legal requirements are increasingly complex. This complexity challenges design and delivery of written and oral trial information to ensure understandable information. To evaluate the level of concordance between patients' and informing physicians' assessments regarding patient understanding of trial information, we carried out a study based on paired questionnaire data from patients and their physicians. These assessments of patient understanding were further correlated with patients' factual knowledge of the information provided.

Methods

This pilot study included patients and physicians immediately after the patients had received information on one o

SUBMITTER: Dellson P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6542135 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature