Key Concepts for assessing claims about treatment effects and making well-informed treatment choices.

ABSTRACT: Background: The Informed Health Choices (IHC) Key Concepts are standards for judgement, or principles for evaluating the trustworthiness of treatment claims and treatment comparisons (evidence) used to support claims, and for making treatment choices. The list of concepts provides a framework, or starting point, for teachers, journalists and other intermediaries for identifying and developing resources (such as longer explanations, examples, games and interactive applications) to help people to understand and apply the concepts. The first version of the list was published in 2015 and has been updated yearly since then. We report here the changes that have been made from when the list was first published up to the current (2018) version. Methods: We developed the IHC Key Conce

SUBMITTER: Oxman AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6290969 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature