Table 5

Patient-Physician Partnership Study: Baseline Adherence, Participatory Decision Making and Satisfaction for 279 Patients

Characteristic

No. of Patients

(%)

Mean (standard deviation)


Hill-Bone Scale

Sodium subscale

5.4 (1.6)

Appointment subscale

2.7 (1.0)

Medication subscale

10.3 (2.0)

Total

18.4 (3.0)

Medication non-adherence*

98 (36.4)

Participatory Decision Making

69.7 (23.3)

Satisfaction:

Satisfied with visit

Neutral to strongly disagree

4 (1.5)

Agree

139 (50.9)

Strongly agree

130 (47.6)

Would recommend MD

Neutral or disagree

3 (1.1)

Agree

187 (68.5)

Strongly agree

83 (30.4)


*Medication non-adherence (Morisky) = a positive response to at least one of four questions regarding forgetting to take medications, stopping medications because of feeling better, stopping medications because of feeling worse, and missing medications because of carelessness.

** Participatory Decision-Making is measured using patient ratings of physicians' likelihood of giving the patient choice, control, responsibility in decision-making and scored on a 0–100 point scale.

Cooper et al. Implementation Science 2009 4:7   doi:10.1186/1748-5908-4-7

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