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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Am Heart J. 2014 Nov 15;169(2):234–241.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2014.11.008

Table 3.

Study Outcomes

Original Consent (n=590) ePRISM Consent (n=527) Hospital-Average Odds Ratio (95% CI) P-value Median Relative Difference in OR Across Hospitals
Reviewing and Understanding
Reviewed consent form 263 (45.4%) 376 (72.0%) 2.85 (1.05, 7.72) 0.04 3.20
Description of treatments were completely clear* 59 (25.1%) 184 (49.3%) 2.24 (0.88, 5.72) 0.08 2.64
Description of complications were completely clear* 63 (27.2%) 186 (50.3%) 2.19 (1.03, 4.70) 0.04 2.00
Completely understood the information* 72 (30.6%) 194 (52.0%) 2.14 (1.03, 4.46) 0.04 2.01
Consent was easy to read* 55 (23.5%) 167 (47.6%) 2.98 (1.38, 6.45) 0.01 2.04
Reading consent did not make me nervous at all* 148 (62.2%) 292 (77.0%) 1.84 (0.88, 3.88) 0.09 1.99
Knowledge transfer
Correctly identified purpose of the procedure 542 (93.4%) 509 (97.0%) 2.17 (1.12, 4.20) 0.02 1.08
Correctly identified purpose of balloon 460 (79.9%) 457 (87.0%) 1.86 (1.03, 3.37) 0.04 1.58
Correctly identified purpose of stent 544 (94.3%) 496 (94.8%) 0.95 (0.35, 2.57) 0.89 1.53
Recalled being told % risk of death 206 (44.5%) 299 (70.4%) 2.79 (0.82, 9.51) 0.09 4.02
Recalled being told % risk of bleeding 177 (39.5%) 284 (70.0%) 3.88 (0.79, 19.00) 0.08 6.19
Patient Engagement in Shared decision-making
Who should decide your treatment? 0.86 (0.57, 1.29) 0.43 1.45
 Doctor alone 63 (10.8%) 35 (6.7%)
 Mostly the doctor 93 (15.9%) 113 (21.6%)
 Doctor and patient equally 325 (55.7%) 315 (60.1%)
 Mostly the patient 58 (9.9%) 46 (8.8%)
 Patient alone 45 (7.7%) 15 (2.9%)
Who decided to use drug eluting or bare metal stent? 2.13 (1.02, 4.43) 0.05 2.22
 Doctor alone 411 (71.5%) 267 (51.8%)
 Mostly the doctor 82 (14.3%) 123 (23.9%)
 Doctor and patient equally 68 (11.8%) 108 (21.0%)
 Mostly the patient 6 (1.0%) 7 (1.4%)
 Patient alone 8 (1.4%) 10 (1.9%)
Discussed stent type with doctor before treatment 179 (31.2%) 300 (57.8%) 2.71 (1.18, 6.26) 0.02 2.60
*

Denominator restricted to those who reviewed the consent form.