Impact of Pre-visit Contextual Data Collection on Patient-Physician Communication and Patient Activation: a Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient contextual data (PCD) are often missing from electronic health records, limiting the opportunity to incorporate preferences and life circumstances into care. Engaging patients through tools that collect and summarize such data may improve communication and patient activation. However, differential tool adoption by race might widen health care disparities.

Objective

Determine if a digital tool designed to collect and present PCD improves communication and patient activation; secondarily, evaluate if use impacts outcomes by race.

Design, setting, and participants

A pragmatic, two-armed, non-blinded, randomized controlled trial conducted during 2019 in a primary care setting.

Intervention

The PCD tool (PatientWisdom) invited patients to identify

SUBMITTER: Holt JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8606508 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature