Why Doctors Are Bad At Stats — And How That Could Affect Your Health
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| Description: | Have you ever wondered whether your doctor is really able to interpret your medica test results accurately, or give you advice on risks and benefits of treatment options? Surprisingly, perhaps, evidence points to the fact that very often doctors do not understand key medical statistics. Numeric illiteracy in health professionals is a global scale problem that impacts public health from an individual level to social scale. Doctors may be selected from the highest academic achievers - but they are currently being let down by the medical education curricula, and that is an issue that affects us all. María del Carmen Climént investigates. |
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| Created: | 2019-09-19 13:33 | ||||
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| Collection: | Winton Centre for Risk & Evidence Communication | ||||
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||||
| Copyright: | M.C. Climent-Palmer | ||||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||||
| Keywords: | cancer; diagnosis; numeric illiteracy; medical school; doctors and statistics; risk in health; | ||||
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https://medium.com/@maracclimentpalmer/why-doctors-are-bad-at-stats-and-how-that-could-affect-your-health-e870d551bcfe