Decision Making in Hypothetical Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Cost Information

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03730376

47392, 47580

Details and patient eligibility

About

Participants will be presented with a hypothetical scenario of carpal tunnel and asked to make a decision for that case.

Full description

Participants will be randomized into 1 of 2 groups and receive a hypothetical scenario of carpal tunnel, with or without cost information, and asked to decide if that hypothetical patient should undergo a carpal tunnel release.

Enrollment: 488 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients presenting to hand clinic OR mturk workers
• age 18 or older

Exclusion criteria

• traumatic mechanism of injury

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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488 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control group will be given a hypothetical scenario about carpal tunnel syndrome and asked to make a treatment decision for that hypothetical patient.

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the intervetion group will be given a hypothetical scenario about carpal tunnel syndrome as well as information about the cost of treatment and asked to make a treatment decision for that hypothetical patient.

Treatment:

Other: Cost Information