CHAMP leaders conducted this national US study to determine the causal impact of shared decision making (SDM) on pain outcomes, including any overall pain and the subcategories of any acute pain and any chronic pain. They additionally examined whether the causal impact of SDM on overall pain is moderated by gender, race-ethnicity, clinician-patient racial-ethnic concordance, and clinician-patient gender concordance. They used national US data from the 2003-2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. They estimated that a 10 percentage point national increase in the shared decision making index would thus result in 10.1 million fewer females and 5.7 million fewer males in the US experiencing chronic pain that interfered with their daily activities.
July 14, 2024