Communicating clinical trial outcomes: Effects of presentation method on physicians’ evaluations of new treatments

Physicians expect a treatment to be more effective when its clinical outcomes are described as relative rather than as absolute risk reductions. We examined whether effects of presentation method (relative vs. absolute risk reduction) remain when physicians are provided the baseline risk information...

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Main Authors: Francesco Marcatto, Jonathan J. Rolison, Donatella Ferrante
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2013-01-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500004472/type/journal_article