Bayesian versus diagnostic information in physician-patient communication: Effects of direction of statistical information and presentation of visualization.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Communicating well with patients is a competence central to everyday clinical practice, and communicating statistical information, especially in Bayesian reasoning tasks, can be challenging. In Bayesian reasoning tasks, information can be communicated in two different ways (which we call directions of information): The direction of Bayesian information (e.g., proportion of people tested positive among those with the disease) and the direction of diagnostic information (e.g., the proportion of people having the disease among those tested positive). The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of both the direction of the information presented and whether a visualization (frequency net) is presented with it on patient's ability to quantify a positive predictive valu

SUBMITTER: Brose SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10246784 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature