Adding a second surprise question triggers general practitioners to increase the thoroughness of palliative care planning: results of a pilot RCT with case vignettes

Table 4 Answers on SQ1^a and SQ2^b and RADIANT scores^c per group^d and per vignette

Vignette	Group 2^e n = 10	RADIANT score group 2 mean	Group 3^f n = 9	RADIANT score group 3 mean
A^g	10 SQ1 ‘no’	6.0	5 SQ1 ‘no’ & SQ2 ‘yes’	5.0
			4 SQ1 ‘no’ & SQ2 ‘no’	1.5
B^h	10 SQ1 ‘no’	5.8	9 SQ1 ‘no’ & SQ2 ‘yes’	5.0
Cⁱ	9 SQ1 ‘no’	4.0	5 SQ1 ‘no’ & SQ2 ‘yes’	4.6
	1 missing		3 SQ1 ‘no’ & SQ2 ‘no’	4.0
			1 missing
D^j	5 SQ1 ‘no’	3.0	2 SQ1 ‘no’ & SQ2 ‘yes’	3.0
	4 SQ1 ‘yes’	1.8	3 SQ1 ‘no’ & SQ2 ‘no’	2.3
			3 SQ1 ‘yes’ & SQ2 ‘no’	0
			1 missing

^aSQ1: Would I be surprised if this patient were to die in the next 12 months?
^bSQ2: Would I be surprised if this patient is still alive after 12 months?
^cRADIANT score: see Table 3
^d only group 2 and group 3 are represented here, as group 1 did not receive any SQ
^egroup 2: received only SQ1 after each vignette
^fgroup 3: received SQ1 and SQ2 after each vignette
^gvignette A: advanced organ failure
^hvignette B: end-stage metastatic pancreatic cancer
ⁱvignette C: frailty
^jvignette D: recently diagnosed metastatic colon cancer

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