Association of quantitative information and patient knowledge about prostate cancer outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

When the volume or complexity of health information exceeds the capacity to process it, patients may misinterpret or ignore critical information. Numerical information is especially challenging to process for many patients, yet no empirical data shows whether numerical information influences how well they could process and recall it.

Method

Using natural language processing tools, we estimated the amount of numerical and probability-related (quantitative) information that was provided in 112 paired urology-radiology clinical consultations with patients who had been recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. The primary outcome measured was patient knowledge about their prostate cancer outcomes assessed before and after the consultations.

Results

Patients with

SUBMITTER: Fridman I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10358782 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature