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Stephanie M Harman1, Rebecca Blankenburg, Jason M Satterfield
1S.M. Harman is clinical associate professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1356-9314. R. Blankenburg is clinical associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1938-6113. J.M. Satterfield is professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2765-3701. B. Monash is associate professor, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California. S. Rennke is professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2004-8496. P. Yuan is research assistant, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8472-0739. D.S. Sakai is clinical associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2345-9856. E. Huynh is an MBA student, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California. I. Chua is assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C., and clinical instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California. J.F. Hilton is professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2452-4274.
Purpose:
To estimate the effectiveness of a multimodal educational intervention to increase use of shared decision-making (SDM) behaviors by inpatient pediatric and internal medicine hospitalists and trainees at teaching hospitals at Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco.
Method:
The 8-week Patient Engagement Project Study intervention, delivered at four services between November 2014 and January 2015, included workshops, campaign messaging, report cards, and coaching. For 12-week pre- and postintervention periods, clinician peers used the nine-point Rochester Participatory Decision-Making Scale (RPAD) to evaluate rounding teams' SDM behaviors with patients during ward rounds. Eligible teams included a hospitalist and at least one trainee (resident, intern, medical student), in addition to nonphysicians. Random-effects models were used to estimate intervention effects based on RPAD scores that sum points on nine SDM behaviors per patient encounter.
Results:
In total, 527 patient encounters were scored during 175 rounds led by 49 hospitalists. Patient and team characteristics were similar across pre- and postintervention periods. Improvement was observed on all nine SDM behaviors. Adjusted for the hierarchical study design and covariates, the mean RPAD score improvement was 1.68 points (95% CI, 1.33-2.03; P < .001; Cohen d = 0.82), with intervention effects ranging from 0.7 to 2.5 points per service. Improvements were associated with longer patient encounters and a higher percentage of trainees per team.
Conclusions:
The intervention increased behaviors supporting SDM during ward rounds on four independent services. The findings recommend use of clinician-focused interventions to promote SDM adoption in the inpatient setting.
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