Nudges on Hospitalist Behavior and Patient Satisfaction

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Satisfaction; Etiquette, Medical

Treatments: Behavioral: Nudge

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05250778

STU-2021-1057

Details and patient eligibility

About

Physician behavior plays an important role on patient perception of their care team and on patient satisfaction. Though studies have attempted to impact how physicians interact with their patients through various initiatives, the effect of more subtle nudges on physician behavior have not been studies. As such, the investigators propose a randomized controlled deception trial to evaluate the impact of nudges on hospitalist behavior and patient satisfaction.

Enrollment: 125 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hospitalist Physicians at Parkland Memorial Hospital who are willing to participate

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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125 participants in 2 patient groups

Nudge Group

Experimental group

Description:

Encounters in this group will be nudged

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nudge

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Encounters in this group will not receive a nudge.