Physician Preferences for an Electronic Lung Cancer Screening Decision Aid

Overview

Journal Am J Manag Care

Specialty Health Services

Date 2024 May 31

PMID 38820185

Authors

Orly Morgan

Julie B Schnur

Michael A Diefenbach

Minal S Kale

Affiliations

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Abstract

Objective: To present primary care physician (PCP) suggestions for design and implementation of a decision aid (DA) tool to support patient-provider shared decision-making on lung cancer screening (LCS).

Study Design: Semistructured interviews were conducted with 15 PCPs at an academic medical center.

Methods: The deidentified transcripts were independently coded by 2 study interviewers and jointly reviewed every 5 interviews until we determined that data saturation had been achieved. We then identified themes in the data and selected illustrative quotes.

Results: Three main themes were identified: (1) make it brief and familiar (make the tool user-friendly and implement a similar format to other widely used DAs); (2) bring me to automation station (limit busywork; focus on the patient and on the decision); and (3) involve the patient (facilitate patient involvement in the DA with simple language, visual aids, and bullet-point takeaways).

Conclusions: Findings contain concrete suggestions by PCPs to inform usable and acceptable LCS DA tool design and implementation. For an LCS DA to be most successful, PCPs emphasized that the tool must be easy to use and incorporate autopopulation functions to limit redundant patient charting.

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