Trial reportJournal of general internal medicine2014
A randomized controlled pilot trial of the functional assessment screening tablet to engage patients at the point of care.
Trial report in Journal of general internal medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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4 citing papers in PubMed.
- The relationship among patient reported outcome measure scores with health care costs and inpatient admission: results from Utah mEVAL and value driven outcomes.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2025Observational
- Does information form matter when giving tailored risk information to patients in clinical settings? A review of patients' preferences and responses.Patient preference and adherence · 2017Article
- Prescription Tablets in the Digital Age: A Cross-Sectional Study Exploring Patient and Physician Attitudes Toward the Use of Tablets for Clinic-Based Personalized Health Care Information Exchange.JMIR research protocols · 2015Article
- Capsule commentary on Hess et al. A randomized controlled pilot trial of the functional assessment screening tablet to engage patients at the point of care.Journal of general internal medicine · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundHealthcare providers play an important role in encouraging healthy behaviors and improving health-related quality of life (HRQoL). They are most effective when they partner with informed, engaged patients.
objectiveTo examine the impact of a new health-information technology intervention (FAST-Feedback) that provides patients with immediate, personalized, guideline-based feedback regarding tobacco use, physical activity, and HRQoL, and encourages patients to initiate discussions regarding these topics with their primary care physician.
designA pilot, randomized controlled trial clustered by resident physician, with patients as the unit of analysis.
participantsResident physicians and their out-patients in a single academic health center between May and October 2011.
interventionPatients received (intervention) or did not receive (control) FAST-Feedback prior to the clinical encounter.
main outcome measuresPrimary outcomes were patient reports of initiating any discussions regarding tobacco use, physical activity, and HRQoL. Subgroup analyses examined patient reports of discussions regarding tobacco use, physical activity, and HRQoL, respectively. KEY
resultsThirty of the 36 eligible resident physicians (83%) agreed to participate; 173 of their 415 eligible patients (42%) expressed interest in the study and 99 (24%) consented to participate. Compared to controls, a higher percentage of intervention patients reported initiating any discussion with their resident physician, although this difference was not statistically significant (40% vs. 27%; p = 0.12). For subgroup analyses regarding specific topics of discussion, patients in the intervention group reported initiating more discussions regarding mental HRQoL than controls (23% vs. 0%; p = 0.02). There was no difference in patient reports of initiating discussions regarding smoking, physical activity or physical HRQoL.
conclusionsProviding patients with immediate, personalized, guideline-based feedback prior to the clinical encounter can increase patient-initiated discussions regarding mental HRQoL. Future work should test FAST-Feedback in a larger population and evaluate the impact on tobacco cessation, increased physical activity, and improvements in HRQoL.
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