Anchoring Patients Pain Scores in the Emergency Department
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 108
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Utilization of a questionnaire to measure the mean pain scores between two intervention groups based on the numeric pain score scale
研究概览
简要总结
The proposed research will be a prospective, observational study to test the hypothesis that anchoring will affect verbal pain scores in the emergency department. There will be a small retrospective aspect to this study to obtain patient satisfaction ratings.
详细描述
The investigators will evaluate a convenience sample of patients presenting to the ED with a complaint of pain. Patients will be consented for participation and will fill out a brief survey concerning the current visit in the ED. There will be two forms of the survey. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the two survey forms. Participants will first be asked if their pain score for this visit is greater than or less than an anchor number provided. In this survey, the investigators will use 20 and 80 as our anchoring numbers. The participants will then have a follow up question asking them to estimate their pain score on a 0-100 scale. Investigators will then perform a chart review to determine patient satisfaction scores for that specific visit to determine if the anchoring effect has any input on patient satisfaction scores.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •18 years of age or older
- •Presenting to the ED with a chief complaint of any type of pain
排除标准
- •Under 18 years of age
- •Refusal to consent
- •Incarcerated patients
- •Pregnant patients
- •Unable to complete survey secondary to clinical instability, severe pain, or disorientation determined by a study physician
结局指标
主要结局
Utilization of a questionnaire to measure the mean pain scores between two intervention groups based on the numeric pain score scale
时间窗: Through study completion, an average of 1 year
A questionnaire will be used to measure pain scores by utilizing a numeric pain scale (0-100) and measure the effect of anchoring bias on pain scores in the Emergency Department. It is hypothesized that a lower pain score anchor will lead to a lower reported pain score by the patient.
次要结局
- An analysis to examine the influence of anchoring on patient satisfaction for patients with common chief complaints related to pain in the Emergency Department. It is unknown if anchoring affects a patient's overall satisfaction.(Through study completion, an average of 1 year)
研究者
Landry Dorsett, DO
Principal Investigator
CHRISTUS Health