Fig. 1From: Effect of individualized communication skills training on physicians’ discussion of clinical trials in oncology: results from a randomized controlled trialFlowchart of study design. Research design for the evaluation of the developed CST. Each assessment period included two randomized controlled trial (RCT) discussion sessions for each participant. The RCT discussion sessions utilized standardized RCT scenarios based on real-life RCTs and trained actor-patients. + An additional physician was initially recruited for the study but dropped out after the pre-assessment sessions due to scheduling difficulties. This early drop-out was not included in the analysis.* CG = Control Group, IG = Intervention Group. ‡ Data of post-assessment t2 of intervention group was not analyzed in this studyBack to article page