Presentation of Diagnostic Information to Doctors May Change Their Interpretation and Clinical Management: A Web-Based Randomised Controlled Trial.

There is little evidence on how best to present diagnostic information to doctors and whether this makes any difference to clinical management. We undertook a randomised controlled trial to see if different data presentations altered clinicians' decision to further investigate or treat a patien...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Simon M Collin, James Quekett, Jonathan A C Sterne, Penny Whiting
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Online Access:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4492926?pdf=render

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