Patient-Clinician Decision Making for Stable Angina: The Role of Health Literacy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stable angina patients have difficulty understanding the tradeoffs between treatment alternatives. In this analysis, we assessed treatment planning conversations for stable angina to determine whether inadequate health literacy acts as a barrier to communication that may partially explain this difficulty.

Methods

We conducted a descriptive analysis of patient questionnaire data from the PCI Choice Trial. The main outcomes were the responses to the Decisional Conflict Scale and the proportion of correct responses to knowledge questions about stable angina. We also conducted a qualitative analysis on recordings of patient-clinician discussions about treatment planning. The recordings were coded with the OPTION12 instrument for shared decision-making. Two analysts in

SUBMITTER: Savitz ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6688543 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature