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Table 2 Characteristics of included patients and clinicians

From: Peering into the black box: a meta-analysis of how clinicians use decision aids during clinical encounters

 

AMI choice

Chest pain choice

Decision aids for diabetes (DAD)

Diabetes choice

Osteoporosis choice I/IIa

All trials

Patients enrolled to the SDM intervention arm, n

53

101

53

48

84

339

Video recordings available, n (%)b

31 (58)

98 (97)

23 (43)

28 (58)

49 (58)

229 (68)

Patients

      

N (% of female)

7 (23)

56 (57)

4 (17)

14 (50)

49 (100)

131 (57)

Age, mean (SD)

65 (7)

54 (12)

60 (11)

63(11)

67 (9)

60 (12)

K-12 education, n (%)c

12 (41)

27 (28)

9 (39)

10 (36)

16 (34)

74 (33)

Income <40 k/year, n (%)d

14 (47)

25 (28)

6 (26)

13 (50)

16 (38)

74 (35)

Married, n (%)e

20 (65)

45 (80)

18 (78)

12 (86)

28 (72)

123 (75)

Commercial insurance, n (%)f

16 (52)

75 (77)

8 (89)

12 (67)

17 (35)

128 (62)

Clinicians

      

N (% female)

3 (100)

51 (25)

16 (31)

16 (44)

36 (47)

122 (37)

Encounters per clinician, mean, median (range)

10.3, 10 (5,16)

1.9, 2 (1, 6)

1.9, 1 (1, 8)

2.6, 2 (1, 8)

1.7, 1 (1,8)

2.2, 1 (1, 16)

Typeg

  Staff physician, n (%)

~

20 (41)

12 (75)

13 (81)

25 (69)

70 (58)

  Physician in training, n (%)

~

26 (53)

2 (12.5)

0 (0)

6 (17)

34 (28)

  Nurse or nurse practitioner, n (%)

3 (100)

3 (6)

2 (12.5)

3 (19)

5 (14)

16 (14)

  1. aOsteoporosis I and II trials were pooled together as one trial is the continuity of the other; bSome recordings were not available due to technical issues (i.e., missing sound, not readable); cValues missing for education (AMI = 2, Chest Pain Choice = 3, Osteoporosis choice I/II = 2); dValue missing for income (AMI = 1, Chest Pain Choice = 10, Diabetes choice = 2, Osteoporosis choice I/II = 7); eValues missing for marital status (Chest Pain Choice = 42, Diabetes = 14, Osteoporosis choice I/II = 10); fValues missing for insurance (DAD = 14, Diabetes choice = 10); gValues missing for clinician type (Chest Pain Choice = 2).