Length of time periods in treatment effect descriptions and willingness to initiate preventive therapy: a randomised survey experiment
Abstract Background Common measures used to describe preventive treatment effects today are proportional, i.e. they compare the proportions of events in relative or absolute terms, however they are not easily interpreted from the patient’s perspective and different magnitudes do not seem to clearly...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-11-01
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| Series: | BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-018-0662-2 |