Why the study?
Does a facilitated, structured conversation improve patient-surrogate concordance and reduce worry in patients before high-risk surgery?
Population
13 patients and their surrogates visiting a preoperative testing center before high-risk surgery at a…
Comparison
Facilitated, structured conversation about… vs Control group
Design
RCT, randomized
Follow-up
postoperatively
Authors
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Supports structured preoperative conversations; confirms acceptability but recruitment barriers leave routine implementation open.
Does a facilitated, structured conversation improve patient-surrogate concordance and reduce worry in patients before high-risk surgery?
A structured conversation about treatment preferences before high-risk surgery is acceptable and helpful to patients and surrogates, though current preoperative care processes present significant barriers to implementation.
Cooper et al. (2014) studied this question.
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