Trial reportJournal of orthopaedic surgery and research2019
Do we really allow patient decision-making in rotator cuff surgery? A prospective randomized study.
Trial report in Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03205852 (Do we Really Allow Patient Decision-making in Rotator Cuff Surgery? A Prospective Randomized Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Do we Really Allow Patient Decision-making in Rotator Cuff Surgery? A Prospective Randomized Study
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Trailblazing Person-Centred Care: Lessons From a Hospital Cluster-Wide Retreat to Co-Design Approaches to Person-Centred Care in Singapore.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- Arthroscopic Repair Versus Conservative Treatment in Degenerative Cuff Tears: Midterm Results.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Content reporting and effectiveness of therapeutic exercise in the management of massive rotator cuff tears: A systematic review with 490 patients.Shoulder & elbow · 2023Review
- 'Down to the person, the individual patient themselves': A qualitative study of treatment decision-making for shoulder pain.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2022Article
- The influence of a cognitive behavioural approach on changing patient expectations for conservative care in shoulder pain treatment: a protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2021Article
- A Historical Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials in Rotator Cuff Tears.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Tenotomy of the Long Head of Biceps Tendon in Patients with Symptomatic Complete Rotator Cuff Tear: In Vivo Non-contRolled Prospective Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is a growing patient interest in being involved in the decision-making process. However, little information is provided on how this information should be structured. Does it make a difference, in patient treatment decision-making, whether information is given based on the benefits or on the side effects in rotator cuff disorders?
methodsIt is a prospective randomized study that includes patients diagnosed with rotator cuff tears. Patients were randomly allocated to either group A (benefit-inform) or group B (side effect-inform) and were asked to answer the following questions based on their assigned group: Group A: Your doctor informs you that you have a rotator cuff tear and states that if he/she surgically repairs your cuff tear you will improve and that the cuff remains healed at the 2-year follow-up in 71% of the cases where surgery is done. Would you choose surgery? Yes or No Group B: Your doctor informs you that you have a rotator cuff tear and that if he/she surgically repairs your cuff tear you will improve and that the cuff is torn again at 2-year follow-up in 29% of the cases where surgery is done. Would you choose surgery? Yes or No Age, gender, the shoulder affected and the functional status assessed through the Constant score were also recorded.
results80 patients were randomized (43 to group A and 37 to group B). The patients assigned to group A (benefit) accepted surgery significantly more frequently than those assigned to group B (complication) (P = 0.000). In group A, 36 of 43 (84%) accepted surgery, compared to 17 of 37 (46%) in group B.
conclusionsThe way that information on rotator cuff disorders is provided strongly influences patients' treatment decisions.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03205852 . Registered 29 June 2017. Retrospectively registered.
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