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 5 Mean cumulative RADIANT scores^a per group, per vignette and per SQ answer combination

Vignette	Group 1 n = 9	Group 2 n=10^b		Group 3 n=9^b		Mean n = 28
		SQ1^c all answers	SQ1 ‘no’	SQ1 all answers	SQ1 ‘no’ & SQ2^d ‘yes’
A^e	4.6	6.0	6.0	3.4	5.0	4.7
B^f	5.9	5.8	5.8	5.0	5.0	5.6
C^g	4.6	4.0	4.0	4.4	4.6	4.3
D^h	2.9	2.7	3.0	1.6	3.0	2.4
Mean	4.5	4.6	4.7	3.6	4.4

^aRADIANT score: see Table 3
^bsome missing data: in both group 2 and group 3 one GP did not fill out vignettes C and D
^cSQ1: Would I be surprised if this patient were to die in the next 12 months?
^dSQ2: Would I be surprised if this patient is still alive after 12 months?
^evignette A: advanced organ failure
^fvignette B: end-stage metastatic pancreatic cancer
^gvignette C: frailty
^hvignette D: recently diagnosed metastatic colon cancer

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