Impact of Cost Conversations During Clinical Encounters Aided by Shared Decision-Making Tools on Medication Adherence.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the impact of cost conversations occurring with or without the use of encounter shared decision-making (SDM) tools in medication adherence.

Patients and methods

Using a coding scheme that included the occurrence and characteristics of cost conversation, we analyzed a randomly selected sample of 169 video recordings of clinical encounters. These videos were obtained during the conduct of practice-based randomized clinical trials comparing care with and without SDM tools for patients with diabetes, osteoporosis, and depression. Medication adherence was described in 2 ways: as a binary (yes/no) outcome, in which the patient met at least 80% adherence, or as a continuous variable, which was the percent of days that the patient adhered to their medication

SUBMITTER: Espinoza Suarez NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9240368 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature