Trial reportMedical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making2025
The Effect of a Surgeon Communication Strategy on Treatment Preference for Thyroid Cancer: A Randomized Trial.
Trial report in Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05132478 (The Effect of Surgeon Emotional Support on Treatment Choice for Low-risk Thyroid Cancer), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers.
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The Effect of Surgeon Emotional Support on Treatment Choice for Low-risk Thyroid Cancer: a Randomized Hypothetical Choice Experiment
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Empathy and emotional support in communication with patients with differentiated thyroid cancer: importance in therapeutic decisions.Gland surgery · 2026Article
- Does Provider's Supportive Communication Enhance Trust and Treatment Adherence Attitudes in Mild and Severe Dysfunction Scenarios? A Web-Based Experimental Study.Patient preference and adherence · 2026Article
- Harnessing the Power of Physician Word Choice in Thyroid Cancer Treatment Decision-Making.Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists · 2025Article
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BackgroundCancer diagnosis causes emotional distress, which can influence patients' treatment choice. This study aimed to investigate the effect of increased emotionally supportive surgeon communication in a virtual setting on treatment preference for thyroid cancer.DesignThis randomized trial (NCT05132478), conducted from November 2021 to February 2023, enrolled adults with ≤4-cm thyroid nodules not requiring surgery. Participants were randomized 1:1 to watch a virtual clinic visit depicting a patient-surgeon treatment discussion for low-risk thyroid cancer. Control and intervention videos were identical except for added emotionally supportive communication in the intervention. The primary outcome was treatment preference for total thyroidectomy or lobectomy. Secondary outcomes were perceived physician empathy, physician trust, decisional confidence, and disease-specific knowledge. An intention-to-treat analysis was performed using conditional regression to account for stratification by sex. Qualitative content analysis evaluated participants' open-ended responses about treatment choice and surgeon communication.ResultsOf 208 eligible patients, 118 (56.7%) participated. Participants were 85.6% female and 88.1% White. Overall, 89.0% (
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