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. 2023 Oct 27;29(2):87–95. doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112462

Table 3.

SDM effect in individual departments: PICS (data set A)

Outcome PICSPDM
Department General surgery Cardiac and vascular surgery Internal medicine Neurosurgery Neurology Nuclear medicine Ophthalmology Urology
n (T0) 49 51 49 38 57 53 64 48
n (T1) 66 62 51 74 70 37 80 70
Mean (T0) 2.91 2.21 2.71 2.62 2.68 2.94 2.32 2.92
SD (T0) 0.89 0.8 0.95 1 0.86 0.78 0.84 0.85
Mean (T1) 2.8 2.79 2.91 3.07 3.05 2.67 2.75 2.76
SD (T1) 0.89 0.91 0.73 0.81 0.68 0.95 0.84 0.91
MD (T1–T0) 0.11 0.58 0.20 0.45 0.37 0.27 0.43 0.16
P value 0.54 0.00 0.25 0.01 0.01 0.14 0.00 0.33
Hedges’ g 0.1148 0.6662 0.2297 0.5164 0.4758 0.3138 0.5074 0.1830

Not significant effects in grey font. Urology department=waitlist control department.

MD, mean difference; PICSPDM, Patient Decision Making subscale of the Perceived Involvement of Care Scale; SDM, shared decision-making.