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20-06-2023 | Care | Concise Research Report
Effect of Emotionally Salient and Loaded Words on Intensity of Care Choice: a Randomized Case Vignette Study
Authors:
Béatrice Paradis, MD, Robert Goulden, MBBS, MA, MSc, Xi Sophie Zhang, MD, MSc, Félix Pageau, MD, MSc, Vincent Weng-Jy Cheung, MSc, Quoc Dinh Nguyen, MD, MA, MPH, PhD
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 14/2023
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Excerpt
Shared decision-making is a bidirectional therapeutic partnership between patient and physician to promote discussion and reach an agreement based on patient values.
1 In the context of uncertainty, communication processes are critical to understanding patients’ values and conveying relevant information.
2 Whereas explicit physician-led recommendations have been shown to influence patient decision-making,
3 the impact of implicit communication has not been well described. In everyday shared decision-making, and especially in highly charged contexts, behavioral economics concepts, such as framing and nudging,
4 may strongly influence patient choices.
5 In this randomized vignette study, we investigated the impact of emotionally salient and loaded words on the choice of intensity of care. …
