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A Comparative Effectiveness Trial of Alternate Formats for Presenting Benefits and Harms Information for Low-Value Screening Services: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

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Sheridan, SL; Sutkowi-Hemstreet, A; Barclay, C; Brewer, NT; Dolor, RJ; Gizlice, Z; Lewis, CL; Reuland, DS; Golin, CE; Kistler, CE; Vu, M; Harris, R
Published in: JAMA Intern Med
January 2016

IMPORTANCE: Healthcare overuse, the delivery of low-value services, is increasingly recognized as a critical problem. However, little is known about the comparative effectiveness of alternate formats for presenting benefits and harms information to patients as a strategy to reduce overuse. OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of different benefits and harms presentations on patients' intentions to accept low-value or potentially low-value screening services (prostate cancer screening in men ages 50-69 years; osteoporosis screening in low-risk women ages 50-64 years; or colorectal cancer screening in men and women ages 76-85 years). DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Randomized clinical trial of 775 individuals eligible to receive information about any 1 of the 3 screening services and scheduled for a visit with their clinician. Participants were randomized to 1 of 4 intervention arms that differed in terms of presentation format: words, numbers, numbers plus narrative, and numbers plus framed presentation. The trial was conducted from September 2012 to June 2014 at 2 family medicine and 2 internal medicine practices affiliated with the Duke Primary Care Research Consortium. The data were analyzed between May and September of 2015. INTERVENTIONS: One-page evidence-based decision support sheets on each of the 3 screening services, with benefits and harms information presented in 1 of 4 formats: words, numbers, numbers plus narratives, or numbers plus a framed presentation. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: The primary outcome was change in intention to accept screening (on a response scale from 1 to 5). Our secondary outcomes included general and disease-specific knowledge, perceived risk and consequences of disease, screening attitudes, perceived net benefit of screening, values clarity, and self-efficacy for screening. RESULTS: We enrolled and randomly allocated 775 individuals, aged 50 to 85 years, to 1 of 4 intervention arms: 195 to words, 192 to numbers, 196 to narrative, and 192 to framed formats. Intentions to accept screening were high before the intervention and change in intentions did not differ across intervention arms (words, -0.07; numbers, -0.05; numbers plus narrative, -0.12; numbers plus framed presentation, -0.02; P = .57 for all comparisons). Change in other outcomes also showed no difference across intervention arms. Results were similar when stratified by screening service. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Single, brief, written decision support interventions, such as the ones in this study, are unlikely to be sufficient to change intentions for screening. Alternate and additional interventions are needed to reduce overused screening services. TRIAL REGISTRATION: clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01694784.

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JAMA Intern Med

DOI

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2168-6114

Publication Date

January 2016

Volume

176

Issue

1

Start / End Page

31 / 41

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Self Efficacy
  • Risk Assessment
  • Prostatic Neoplasms
  • Patient Education as Topic
  • Osteoporosis
  • Middle Aged
  • Medical Overuse
  • Mass Screening
  • Male
  • Intention
 

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Sheridan, S. L., Sutkowi-Hemstreet, A., Barclay, C., Brewer, N. T., Dolor, R. J., Gizlice, Z., … Harris, R. (2016). A Comparative Effectiveness Trial of Alternate Formats for Presenting Benefits and Harms Information for Low-Value Screening Services: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med, 176(1), 31–41. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.7339
Sheridan, Stacey L., Anne Sutkowi-Hemstreet, Colleen Barclay, Noel T. Brewer, Rowena J. Dolor, Ziya Gizlice, Carmen L. Lewis, et al. “A Comparative Effectiveness Trial of Alternate Formats for Presenting Benefits and Harms Information for Low-Value Screening Services: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA Intern Med 176, no. 1 (January 2016): 31–41. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.7339.
Sheridan SL, Sutkowi-Hemstreet A, Barclay C, Brewer NT, Dolor RJ, Gizlice Z, et al. A Comparative Effectiveness Trial of Alternate Formats for Presenting Benefits and Harms Information for Low-Value Screening Services: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2016 Jan;176(1):31–41.
Sheridan, Stacey L., et al. “A Comparative Effectiveness Trial of Alternate Formats for Presenting Benefits and Harms Information for Low-Value Screening Services: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA Intern Med, vol. 176, no. 1, Jan. 2016, pp. 31–41. Pubmed, doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.7339.
Sheridan SL, Sutkowi-Hemstreet A, Barclay C, Brewer NT, Dolor RJ, Gizlice Z, Lewis CL, Reuland DS, Golin CE, Kistler CE, Vu M, Harris R. A Comparative Effectiveness Trial of Alternate Formats for Presenting Benefits and Harms Information for Low-Value Screening Services: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2016 Jan;176(1):31–41.

Published In

JAMA Intern Med

DOI

EISSN

2168-6114

Publication Date

January 2016

Volume

176

Issue

1

Start / End Page

31 / 41

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Self Efficacy
  • Risk Assessment
  • Prostatic Neoplasms
  • Patient Education as Topic
  • Osteoporosis
  • Middle Aged
  • Medical Overuse
  • Mass Screening
  • Male
  • Intention