General practitioners' risk literacy and real-world prescribing of potentially hazardous drugs: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Overuse of medical care is a pervasive problem. Studies using hypothetical scenarios suggest that physicians' risk literacy influences medical decisions; real-world correlations, however, are lacking. We sought to determine the association between physicians' risk literacy and their real-world prescriptions of potentially hazardous drugs, accounting for conflicts of interest and perceptions of benefit-harm ratios in low-value prescribing scenarios.

Setting and sample

Cross-sectional study-conducted online between June and October 2023 via field panels of Sermo (Hamburg, Germany)-with a convenience sample of 304 English general practitioners (GPs).

Methods

GPs' survey responses on their treatment-related risk literacy, conflicts of interest and perceptions o

SUBMITTER: Wegwarth O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11503163 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature