Pilot Study of an Encounter Decision Aid for Lung Cancer Screening.

ABSTRACT: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has mandated in-person shared decision-making (SDM) counseling with the use of one or more decision aids (DAs) prior to lung cancer screening. We developed a single-page, paper-based, encounter DA (EDA) to be used within a clinician-patient encounter for lung cancer screening and conducted a pre-post pilot intervention study to evaluate its feasibility and effects on patient decisional conflict. Patients referred to a pulmonary practice-based lung cancer screening program were surveyed before and after an SDM visit with a pulmonologist, who used the EDA to counsel the patient. Patient knowledge of the mortality benefit from screening and the frequency of abnormal screening test results was evaluated after the visit, while decisional conflict w

SUBMITTER: Ito Fukunaga M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8260603 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature