Clinical trial NCT04717518: Anchoring Patients Pain Scores in the Emergency Department
Official title: Anchoring Patients Pain Scores in the Emergency Department
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Abdominal Pain
Chest Pain
Headache
Joint Pain
Muscle Pain
Back Pain
Neck Pain
Keywords: Emergency Room
Lead sponsor: CHRISTUS Health
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-01-22
Enrollment: 108
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Study subjects include patients presenting to the Emergency Department at CHRISTUS Spohn Shoreline with a chief complaint of pain.

Brief summary: The proposed research will be a prospective, observational study to test the hypothesis that anchoring will affect verbal pain scores in the emergency department. There will be a small retrospective aspect to this study to obtain patient satisfaction ratings.

Detailed description: The investigators will evaluate a convenience sample of patients presenting to the ED with a complaint of pain. Patients will be consented for participation and will fill out a brief survey concerning the current visit in the ED. There will be two forms of the survey. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the two survey forms. Participants will first be asked if their pain score for this visit is greater than or less than an anchor number provided. In this survey, the investigators will use 20 and 80 as our anchoring numbers. The participants will then have a follow up question asking them to estimate their pain score on a 0-100 scale. Investigators will then perform a chart review to determine patient satisfaction scores for that specific visit to determine if the anchoring effect has any input on patient satisfaction scores.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 18 years of age or older
* Presenting to the ED with a chief complaint of any type of pain

Exclusion Criteria:

* Under 18 years of age
* Refusal to consent
* Incarcerated patients
* Pregnant patients
* Unable to complete survey secondary to clinical instability, severe pain, or disorientation determined by a study physician

Primary outcomes:
measure: Utilization of a questionnaire to measure the mean pain scores between two intervention groups based on the numeric pain score scale
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: An analysis to examine the influence of anchoring on patient satisfaction for patients with common chief complaints related to pain in the Emergency Department. It is unknown if anchoring affects a patient's overall satisfaction.
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Corpus Christi
country: United States
facility: CHRISTUS Spohn Health System
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: CHRISTUS Spohn Health System
name: Landry Dorsett, DO
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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