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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]

Health Expectations, 2020
Objective To 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
Rachel M. Skains, Nathan Kuppermann, James L. Homme, Anupam B. Kharbanda, Leah Tzimenatos, Jeffrey P. Louie, Daniel M. Cohen, Lise E. Nigrovic, Jessica J. Westphal, Nilay D. Shah, Jonathan Inselman, Michael J. Ferrara, Jeph Herrin, Victor M. Montori, Erik P. Hess   +14 more
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Physicians' Perceptions of Patients' Knowledge and Opinions Regarding Breast Cancer: Associations with Patient Education and Physician Numeracy. [PDF]

Breast Care (Basel), 2011
SUMMARY: Background: The aim of this study was to assess physicians' perception of their patients' knowledge and opinions regarding regular screening, and the association of their perceptions with physician numeracy and patient education level. Methods: We carried out a survey study of 240 obstetrician-gynecologists.
Anderson BL, Schulkin J.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Physician trainees' decision making and information processing: choice size and Medicare Part D. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Many patients expect their doctor to help them choose a Medicare prescription drug plan. Whether the size of the choice set affects clinicians' decision processes and strategy selection, and the quality of their choice, as it does their older patients ...
Andrew J Barnes, Yaniv Hanoch, Melissa Martynenko, Stacey Wood, Thomas Rice, Alex D Federman   +5 more
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Health Numeracy and Relative Risk Comprehension in Perioperative Patients and Physicians

Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2020
BACKGROUND: Helping patients to understand relative risks is challenging. In discussions with patients, physicians often use numbers to describe hazards, make comparisons, and establish relevance. Patients with a poor understanding of numbers—poor “health numeracy”—also have difficulty making decisions and coping with chronic ...
Ryan R, Hayter, Aaron S, Hess
openaire   +3 more sources

Choice, numeracy, and physicians-in-training performance: The case of Medicare Part D. [PDF]

Health Psychology, 2010
In this study, we examined the effect of choice-set size and numeracy levels on a physician-in-training's ability to choose appropriate Medicare drug plans.Medical students and internal medicine residents (N = 100) were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 surveys, differing only in the number of plans to be evaluated (3, 10, and 20).
Yaniv, Hanoch, Talya, Miron-Shatz, Helen, Cole, Mary, Himmelstein, Alex D, Federman   +4 more
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Addressing health literacy in patient decision aids [PDF]

, 2013
MethodsWe reviewed literature for evidence relevant to these two aims. When high-quality systematic reviews existed, we summarized their evidence.
Clayman, M.L., Holmes-Rovner, M., Kelly-Blake, K., McCaffery, K., Nutbeam, Don, Rovner, D., Smith, S., Stacey, S., Wolf, M.   +8 more
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Health Literacy, Numeracy, and Graphical Literacy Among Veterans in Primary Care and Their Effect on Shared Decision Making and Trust in Physicians [PDF]

Journal of Health Communication, 2013
Studies reveal high levels of inadequate health literacy and numeracy in African Americans and older veterans. The authors aimed to investigate the distribution of health literacy, numeracy, and graph literacy in these populations. They conducted a cross-sectional survey of veterans receiving outpatient care and measured health literacy, numeracy ...
Rodríguez, Vanessa, Andrade, Allen D., García-Retamero, Rocio, Anam, Ramanakumar, Rodríguez, Remberto, Lisigurski, Miriam, Sharit, Joseph, Ruiz, Jorge G.   +7 more
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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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Empirical relationships between health literacy and treatment decision making : A scoping review of the literature [PDF]

, 2014
Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. Acknowledgements This research was supported by a Joseph Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship awarded to Leslie J. Malloy-Weir by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Charles, Cathy, Entwistle, Vikki A, Gafni, Amiram, Malloy-Weir, Leslie J   +3 more
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