How Jurors Evaluate Fingerprint Evidence: The Relative Importance of Match Language, Method Information, and Error Acknowledgment [PDF]
, 2013 Fingerprint examiners use a variety of terms and phrases to describe a finding of a match between a defendant\u27s fingerprints and fingerprint impressions collected from a crime scene.
Garrett, Brandon L., Mitchell, Gregory
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Individualized decision aid for diverse women with lupus nephritis (IDEA-WON): A randomized controlled trial. [PDF]
, 2019 BackgroundTreatment decision-making regarding immunosuppressive therapy is challenging for individuals with lupus. We assessed the effectiveness of a decision aid for immunosuppressive therapy in lupus nephritis.Methods and findingsIn a United States ...
Alarcón, Graciela S +27 more
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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 +2 more
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Physician Numeracy as the Basis for an Evidence-Based Medicine Curriculum
Academic Medicine, 2010 Most medical schools and postgraduate programs devote some time to teaching evidence-based medicine (EBM). EBM encompasses five essential skills, including constructing a sound clinical question, literature searching, critical appraisal, gaining a full understanding of study results, and integration of results into patient care.
Goutham, Rao, Steven L, Kanter
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Predictors of English Health Literacy among U.S. Hispanic Immigrants: The importance of language, bilingualism and sociolinguistic environment [PDF]
, 2016 In the United States, data confirm that Spanish-speaking immigrants are particularly affected by the negative health outcomes associated with low health literacy.
Hund, Lauren +2 more
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Cancer screening risk literacy of physicians in training: An experimental study.
PLoS ONE, 2019 We investigated what factors may foster or hinder physicians' cancer screening risk literacy-specifically the ability to understand evidence regarding screening effectiveness and make evidence-based recommendations to patients.
Dafina Petrova +5 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 +48 more
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The assessment of pain in older people [PDF]
, 2007 Pain is under-recognised and under-treated in older people. It is a subjective, personal experience, only known to the person who suffers. The assessment of pain is particularly challenging in the presence of severe cognitive impairment, communication ...
Closs, S.J. +4 more
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Tailoring Educational and Behavioral Interventions to Level of Health Literacy: A Systematic Review
MDM Policy & Practice, 2017 Background: The relative value of universal compared to contingent approaches to communication and behavioral interventions for persons of low health literacy remains unknown.
Marilyn M. Schapira MD, MPH +6 more
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Medical Decision Making, 2017 Objective. Many patients have low numeracy, which impedes their understanding of important information about health (e.g., benefits and harms of screening). We investigated whether physicians adapt their risk communication to accommodate the needs of patients with low numeracy, and how physicians’ own numeracy influences their understanding and ...
Petrova, D +4 more
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