Table 2

Primary Care Physician Behaviors in Eliciting Patients’ Perspectives About Prostate Cancer or Prostate Cancer Screening: 12 Coded Items

Elicitation of Patient Perspectives	Overall (N=118) %	Control (n=57) %	Intervention (n=61) %
Asks about patient’s direct previous experience	46	53	40
Ask about patient’s family history	47	40	54
Asks about patient’s indirect personal experience^a	8	2	15
Asks about patient’s knowledge	3	0	5
Asks about patient’s concerns about having PCA^a	7	2	12
Solicits concerns about having side effects from test or treatment^a	3	0	7
Offers opportunities to ask questions	13	12	13
Checks patient’s understanding of information	25	19	30
Explains why shared decision making is necessary for PCS	28	21	34
Elicits patient’s preferred level of involvement in decisions	0	0	0
Assesses patient’s preferences for receipt of information	0	0	0
Asks patient his decision	34	28	39

PCS=prostate cancer screening; PSA=prostate-specific antigen.
Note: Percentage of physicians who inquired about their patient’s perspective about prostate cancer or prostate cancer screening at least once during an unannounced standardized patient visit.
↵a P <.05.