Erschienen in:
29.05.2019 | Concise Research Reports
Communicating a Prognosis: a Randomized Trial of Survival Rate Language
verfasst von:
Eric P. Silver, MS, Stephen B. Broomell, PhD, Alexander L. Davis, PhD, Douglas B. White, MD, Tamar Krishnamurti, PhD
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 10/2019
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Excerpt
As medical practice transitions toward shared decision-making between physicians and patients, it is essential that prognostic information is clearly communicated.
1 Laypeople are able to make reasonable statistical inferences about familiar domains.
2 However, Kaplan-Meier curves, commonly used by physicians in estimating survival rates over time, are unfamiliar to patients. We test two prognoses, which communicate cumulative mortality and duration, and find lay understandings are more affected by the chosen time period than survival probability when estimating survival duration. …