Evaluating nuanced practices for initiating decision making in neurology clinics

Record ID 32015000937
English
Authors' objectives: In a recent study of neurology consultations, we aimed to understand how doctors offer patients a choice about treatments or tests. Our study was based on 223 outpatient consultations, which we captured using video and audio-recordings. We found that, from the point of view of both doctors and patients, option-listing was the most widely recognised way to offer choice. Option-listing involves the doctor providing a menu of options for the patient and giving them a chance to say what they think about these. As a result of this previous study, we can advise doctors on how best to offer patients choice using option-listing. However, there is an important question that we did not ask within that study. This is the main question we want to raise in our proposed follow-on research: how does offering choice compare with recommending a course of treatment or further test?
Details
Project Status: Completed
URL for project: http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/projects/hsdr/141943
Year Published: 2015
English language abstract: An English language summary is available
Publication Type: Not Assigned
Country: England, United Kingdom
MeSH Terms
  • Adult
  • Choice Behavior
  • Communication
  • Decision Making
  • Female
  • Male
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Professional Autonomy
  • Qualitative Research
  • Referral and Consultation
  • Time Factors
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Epilepsy
  • Migraine Disorders
  • Neurology
  • Seizures
Contact
Organisation Name: NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research programme
Contact Address: NIHR Journals Library, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK
Contact Name: journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Contact Email: journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
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