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Table 1 Anticipated power to detect patient and stakeholder-important outcomes on completion of the trial

From: Effectiveness of the Chest Pain Choice decision aid in emergency department patients with low-risk chest pain: study protocol for a multicenter randomized trial

Outcome (n = 884)

Usual Care*

Decision Aid*

Difference

Power

Patient knowledge

44% (23.3)

60% (20.9)

16% (9.5%, 22.5%)

99%

Patient engagement in the decision-making process (n = 221)

7.0 (5.5)

26.3 (8.2)

19.3 (18.4, 20.2)

99%

Decisional conflict†

35.9 (18.9)

22.3 (21.1)

13.6 (11.0, 16.2)

99%

Trust in the physician

79.3 (19.9)

83.4 (19.8)

4.1 (1.5, 6.7)

86%

Patient satisfaction with the decision made (% agree or strongly agree they are satisfied)

69.7 (25.6)

80 (25.6)

10.3 (4.6%, 16.0%)

99%

Safety (major adverse cardiovascular events)‡

0%

0%

0% (−−)

78%

Proportion of patients admitted for cardiac testing

77%

67%

10% (4.1, 15.9)

90%

Healthcare utilization

8.3 (0.8)

7.0 (0.7)

1.3 (1.2, 1.4)

99%

  1. *Estimates were determined from our completed pilot randomized trial [11].
  2. †Lower decisional conflict scores indicate less conflict experienced by patients related to feeling uninformed.
  3. ‡Non-inferiority, one-sided test with alpha = 0.05 with a maximum difference of 5%.