Impact of a Decision Aid on Patient Decision Making in Emergency Department Chest Pain Patients

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Conditions studied: Acute Coronary Syndrome

In brief

We are doing a study to assess the impact of including patients in making decision regarding their own medical care in the emergency department. We will randomly assign them to either receive a decision aid or usual care. In doing this, we aim to increase patient satisfaction and safely decrease medical cost.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01077037

Run by

Mayo Clinic

People needed

204

Starts

2010-02-01

Expected to finish

2011-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-05-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adults with a primary complaint of chest pain.
• Treating clinician's next consideration is observation unit admission for cardiac stress testing.

You may not qualify if…

• Initial cardiac troponin T value >99th percentile (>0.01ng/mL)
• History of coronary artery disease
• coronary revascularization procedure within the previous 30 days
• cocaine use within 72 hours by the clinician's initial history
• pregnancy
• patient cannot read English or have, in their clinician's judgment, major learning barriers, such as visual or hearing impairment or dementia that would compromise their ability to give written informed consent (or use the decision aid)

Where it is running

• Mayo Clinic Rochester — Rochester, Minnesota, United States

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