Does training general practitioners result in more shared decision making during consultations?

Objective: We conducted a clustered randomised controlled trial to study the effects of shared decision making (SDM) on patient recovery. This study aims to determine whether GPs trained in SDM and reinforcing patients' treatment expectations showed more trained behaviour during their consultations than untrained GPs.

Methods: We compared 86 consultations conducted by 23 trained GPs with 89 consultations completed by 19 untrained GPs.