Transforming PCI Informed Consent Into an Evidence-based Decision-making Tool (PRISM)

This study will test the impact of a new mechanism for eliciting informed consent from patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) on 1) patients' comprehension of procedural risks/benefits and participation in shared decision-making; and 2) upon clinicians' use of effective strategies to minimize the risk of bleeding at the time of PCI. To facilitate these goals, we will prospectively provide each patients' risks for bleeding at the time that the informed consent document is generated. This will be accomplished by transforming the infrastructure of the informed consent process at participating study centers using a novel, web-based system - the Personalized Risk Information Services Manager (PRISM) - to generate individualized consent forms with estimates of risks and outcomes using validated multivariable models from the American College of Cardiology's NCDR. The goals of this study are to 1) identify barriers in implementing individualized consent forms in clinical care and to test whether this novel consent process 2) improves the quality of the informed consent process, 3) supports the more rational use of Bleeding Avoidance Therapies (BATs), 4) reduces bleeding events after PCI, and 5) supports a more cost-effective PCI procedure. This will be done using a pre-post design at 6 enrolling hospitals and comparing changes in practice with contemporaneous controls matched from the broader NCDR Cath/PCI registry.