NCT07089953

Patient Perception of Physician's Compassion, Communication Skills, and Professionalism During Clinic Visits: a Randomized Controlled Trial (EHR Study #3)

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 88 (estimated)
• Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To learn about how patients view a doctor's compassion, communication skills, and professionalism based on whether the doctor uses the Electronic Health Record (EHR) during a visit with a patient.

Detailed description

Primary Objectives 1. To compare participants' perception of physicians' compassion after they watch two scripted-video vignettes of physicians: one portraying a traditional face to face clinical visit without the use of examination room computer, and the other one portraying a physician using an integrated model of EHR use for communication during the visit. Secondary Objectives 1\. Study To compare participants' perception of physicians' communication skills after they watch two scripted-video vignettes of physicians: one portraying a traditional face to face clinical visit without examination room computer use, and the other one portraying a physician using an integrated model of EHR use during communication.

Conditions

• Communication Skills
• Professionalism
• Randomized Controlled Trial
• Perception

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Questionnaire	Complete 3 questionnaires about your emotions and your trust in doctors.
OTHER	Video	Four (4) videos, each 4 minutes long, have been made for use in this study.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-07-15
• Primary completion: 2026-12-31
• Completion: 2028-12-31
• First posted: 2025-07-29
• Last updated: 2026-02-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States