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Clinician Numeracy: The Development of an Assessment Measure for Doctors

Numeracy, 2016
Low numeracy in doctors poses serious risks to patient safety because inaccurate drug dose calculation may lead to under-treatment or overdose, while erroneous data interpretation affects medical decision making.
Anne A. Taylor, Lucie M. Byrne-Davis
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Clinician Numeracy: Use of the Medical Interpretation and Numeracy Test in Foundation Trainee Doctors

Numeracy, 2017
Patient safety is a priority in healthcare today. Good clinician numeracy in doctors contributes to patient safety, since it is essential for accuracy in prescribing, and in data interpretation.
Anne A. Taylor, Lucie M. Byrne-Davis
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The Impact of Calculators on a Test of Clinician Numeracy: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Numeracy, 2019
Clinician numeracy (CN), the ability to use and understand quantitative data in patient care, is an important skill for healthcare professionals. Nonetheless, it is recognized that many healthcare professionals, including doctors, have deficiencies in CN,
Anne Taylor, Douglas Corfield, Lucie Byrne-Davis   +2 more
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AMPDECIDE amputation level patient decision aids: a feasibility study [PDF]

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Objective This was a feasibility study of the AMPDECIDE amputation level selection patient decision aids (one transmetatarsal vs. transtibial, the other transtibial vs. transfemoral) designed to inform a larger efficacy trial.
Alison W. Henderson, Maryam Soltani, Bjoern D. Suckow, Alison R. Kern, Daniel D. Matlock, Joseph M. Czerniecki, Daniel C. Norvell   +6 more
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Development and initial validation of a computer-administered health literacy assessment in Spanish and English: FLIGHT/VIDAS [PDF]

Patient Related Outcome Measures, 2013
Raymond L Ownby,1 Amarilis Acevedo,2 Drenna Waldrop-Valverde,3 Robin J Jacobs,1 Joshua Caballero,4 Rosemary Davenport,1 Ana-Maria Homs,1 Sara J Czaja,5 David Loewenstein51Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Nova Southeastern University ...
Ownby RL, Acevedo A, Waldrop-Valverde D, Jacobs RJ, Caballero J, Davenport R, Homs AM, Czaja SJ, Loewenstein D   +8 more
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What is the effect of a decision aid in potentially vulnerable parents? Insights from the head CT choice randomized trial. [PDF]

, 2020
ObjectiveTo test the hypotheses that use of the Head CT Choice decision aid would be similarly effective in all parent/patient dyads but parents with high (vs low) numeracy experience a greater increase in knowledge while those with low (vs high) health ...
Cohen, Daniel M, Ferrara, Michael J, Herrin, Jeph, Hess, Erik P, Homme, James L, Inselman, Jonathan, Kharbanda, Anupam B, Kuppermann, Nathan, Louie, Jeffrey P, Montori, Victor M, Nigrovic, Lise E, Shah, Nilay D, Skains, Rachel M, Tzimenatos, Leah, Westphal, Jessica J   +14 more
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The association of health literacy with adherence in older 2 adults, and its role in interventions: a systematic meta-review [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Low health literacy is a common problem among older adults. It is often suggested to be associated with poor adherence. This suggested association implies a need for effective adherence interventions in low health literate people.
A Jovic-Vranes, A Schoenthaler, A Wallace, AJ Wawrzyniak, AK Hall, Andrea F. de Winter, AS Wallace, B Geboers, B Kwan, Bas Geboers, BJ Shea, C Protogerou, C Wagner von, C Wagner von, Carel J. M. Jansen, Charlotte Salter, CT Schaefer, CV Weekes, D Nutbeam, D Schillinger, D Schillinger, DL Keller, DM Carpenter, DW Baker, DW Baker, E Dusseldorp, E Sabate, EE Scoyoc Van, ET Carbone, F Al Sayah, G Zandman-Goddard, GP Stoehr, J Chin, J Jin, J Tang, Julii S. Brainard, K Cavanaugh, K Mattishent, KM Cordasco, KW Muir, L Lewis, LA Becker, LA Lindquist, M Corry, M Paasche-Orlow, MD Murray, MJ Cohen, MP Fransen, MS Wolf, N Ratanawongsa, ND Berkman, ND Berkman, NJ Zhang, P Sarrami-Foroushani, PA Newman-Casey, PG Witte, PS Foroushani, R Mõttus, R Ostini, RL Sudore, S Ashida, S Kim, SA Reijneveld, SH Kim, Sijmen A. Reijneveld, SL Gray, SL Sheridan, T Daniels, TC Davis, TL Scott, TW Lee, V Smith, WF Gellad, YK Loke, Yoon K. Loke   +74 more
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The 2016 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference, Shared Decision Making in the Emergency Department: Development of a Policy-relevant Patient-centered Research Agenda Diagnostic Testing Breakout Session Report. [PDF]

, 2016
Diagnostic testing is an integral component of patient evaluation in the emergency department (ED). Emergency clinicians frequently use diagnostic testing to more confidently exclude worst-case diagnoses rather than to determine the most likely ...
Arterburn, Barton, Barton, Berkman, Charles, Edmonds, Elwyn, Elwyn, Flynn, Geyer, Gilbert, Gilbert, Hampers, Hess, Hess, Hess, Hoffman, Joseph-Williams, Jull, Jull, Kanzaria, Kanzaria, Katz, Kindermann, Kline, Kocher, Korley, Kripalani, Kutner, Larkin, Legare, Marin, Mitchell, O'Connor, Oshima Lee, Peterson, Rising, Rising, Schillinger, Sheehan, Stacey, Sudore, Venkatesh, Weiss, Weiss, Wharam, Wiener, Wolf, Wong   +48 more
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Supporting Accurate Interpretation of Self-Administered Medical Test Results for Mobile Health: Assessment of Design, Demographics, and Health Condition [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Technological advances in personal informatics allow people to track their own health in a variety of ways, representing a dramatic change in individuals’ control of their own wellness.
Baumer, Eric P.S., Gay, Geri K., Guha, Shion, Hohenstein, Jess C., Lee, Seoho, Murnane, Elizabeth L., O\u27Dell, Dakota, Qi, Yu, Reynolds, Lindsay, Rieger, Erin   +9 more
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Shared decision making in patients with low risk chest pain: prospective randomized pragmatic trial. [PDF]

, 2016
OBJECTIVE: To compare the effectiveness of shared decision making with usual care in choice of admission for observation and further cardiac testing or for referral for outpatient evaluation in patients with possible acute coronary syndrome.
Castaneda-Guarderas, Ana, Demers, Michel, Diercks, Deborah B., Herrin, Jeph, Hess, Erik P., Hollander, Judd E., Inselman, Jonathan, Jones, Russell, Kline, Jeffrey A., Leblanc, Annie, Meisel, Zachary F., Montori, Victor M., Owen, Kelly P., Schaffer, Jason T., Shah, Nilay D., Torres, Carlos A.   +15 more
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