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Erschienen in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 10/2019

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 | 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. …
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Metadaten
Titel
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
Publikationsdatum
29.05.2019
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
Erschienen in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Ausgabe 10/2019
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Elektronische ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05056-w

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