Training surgical residents to use a framework to promote shared decision-making for patients with poor prognosis experiencing surgical emergencies | Zendy

Tyler R. Chesney | Zendy; Karen Devon | Zendy

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Training surgical residents to use a framework to promote shared decision-making for patients with poor prognosis experiencing surgical emergencies

Author(s) -

Tyler R. Chesney,

Karen Devon

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

canadian journal of surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1488-2310

pISSN - 0008-428X

DOI - 10.1503/cjs.011317

Subject(s) - medicine , debriefing , summative assessment , intervention (counseling) , formative assessment , interquartile range , confidence interval , session (web analytics) , family medicine , physical therapy , nursing , medical education , surgery , statistics , mathematics , world wide web , computer science

Patients with poor underlying prognosis experiencing surgical emergencies face challenging treatment decisions. The Best Case/Worst Case (BC/WC) framework has improved shared decision-making by surgeons, but it is unclear whether residents can be similarly trained. We evaluated senior general surgical residents' acceptance of the BC/WC tool and their attitudes, confidence and actions before and after training.

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