Fostering Patient Choice Awareness and Presenting Treatment Options Neutrally: A Randomized Trial to Assess the Effect on Perceived Room for Involvement in Decision Making.

Arwen H PieterseKim BrandesJessica de GraafJoyce E de BoerNanon H M LabrieAnouk KnopsCornelia F AllaartJohanna E A PortieljeWillem Jan W Bos Anne M Stiggelbout

Published in: Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making (2021)

This is the first experimental evidence for a small effect of fostering choice awareness and no effect of physician preference on perceived room to participate in decision making. Physician preference steered patients toward preferring that option.

Keyphrases

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