Agenda setting and visit openings in primary care visits involving patients taking opioids for chronic pain

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Table 4 Mean patient experience and physician difficulty with or without agenda setting

All Visits^a n = 83	Agenda Setting n = 9	No Agenda Setting n = 74
All Visits^a n = 83	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Beta (95%CI)	p-value
Patient experience^b	−0.60 (1.60)	0.09 (0.72)	−0.70 (− 1.70, 0.3)	0.18
Physician perceived difficulty^c	31.11 (10.43)	26.89 (10.72)	4.20 (−2.80, 11.30)	0.24

^aVisits are the 83 that were reviewed for visit opening style
^bPatient experience: Single standardized measure of four measures (short form of the Wake Forest trust scale [45], 3-item measure of agreement with treatment plan [46], Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Adult Visit Survey [47], patient-facing version of the Difficult Physician-Patient Relationship Questionnaire) [43] with higher values indicating a better experience
^cPhysician perceived difficulty: 10-item Difficult Physician-Patient Relationship Questionnaire, scaled 0–60 with 60 being most difficult [44]
SD Standard Deviation, CI Confidence Intervals

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