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. 2014 May 10;15:166. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-15-166

Table 1.

Anticipated power to detect patient and stakeholder-important outcomes on completion of the trial

Outcome (n = 884) Usual Care* Decision Aid* Difference Power
Patient knowledge
44% (23.3)
60% (20.9)
16% (9.5%, 22.5%)
99%
Patient engagement in the decision-making process (n = 221)
7.0 (5.5)
26.3 (8.2)
19.3 (18.4, 20.2)
99%
Decisional conflict†
35.9 (18.9)
22.3 (21.1)
13.6 (11.0, 16.2)
99%
Trust in the physician
79.3 (19.9)
83.4 (19.8)
4.1 (1.5, 6.7)
86%
Patient satisfaction with the decision made (% agree or strongly agree they are satisfied)
69.7 (25.6)
80 (25.6)
10.3 (4.6%, 16.0%)
99%
Safety (major adverse cardiovascular events)‡
0%
0%
0% (−−)
78%
Proportion of patients admitted for cardiac testing
77%
67%
10% (4.1, 15.9)
90%
Healthcare utilization 8.3 (0.8) 7.0 (0.7) 1.3 (1.2, 1.4) 99%

*Estimates were determined from our completed pilot randomized trial [11].

†Lower decisional conflict scores indicate less conflict experienced by patients related to feeling uninformed.

‡Non-inferiority, one-sided test with alpha = 0.05 with a maximum difference of 5%.