Risk communication; The patient's view

Early Human Development

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL., 1996, Pages

  Thornton, J G ^a   Van Den Borne, M P J ^a   De Bruijn, A J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information; Prenatal screening; Risk presentation

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL SCREENING; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ABNORMALITIES; ABORTION, INDUCED; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RISK;

EID: 0343035677     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(96)01812-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. Thornton, J.G. (1995): Prevalence of HIV infection. Br. Med. J., 310, 1268.
2. Anderson, C.M. and Thornton, J.G. (1994): Screening for cervical cancer. Br. Med. J., 309, 953-954.
3. Cartmill, R.S.V. and Thornton, J.G. (1992): Obstetric decision making; the effect of varying the presentation of partogram information. Lancet, 339, 1520-1522.
4. Tversky, A. and Kahnemann, D. (1974): Judgement under uncertainty: heuristics and biases. Science, 185, 1124-1131.
5. Kong A, Barnett G.O., Mosteller F, Youtz C. (1986): How medical professionals evaluate expressions of probability. New Engl. J. Med., 315, 704.
6. Pauker, S.P. and Pauker, S.G. (1987): The Amniocentesis Decision: Ten Years of Decision Analytic Experience. Birth Defects; Original Article Series, 23, (2), 151-169. March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation.
7. Thornton, J.G., Lilford, R.J. and Johnson, N. (1992): Decision analysis in medicine. Br. Med. J., 304, 1099-1103.
8. Thornton, J.G. and Lilford, R.J. (1995): Decision analysis for medical managers. Br. Med. J., 310, 791-794.
9. Green, J. (1990): Calming or Harming. Galton Institute Occasional Papers, Second series no. 2.
10. Burton, B.K., Dillard, R.G. and Clark, E.N. (1985): The psychological impact of false positive elevations of maternal serum alphafetoprotein. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol., 151, 77-82.
11. Burton, B.K., Dillard, R.G. and Clark, E.N. (1985): Maternal serum alphafetoprotein screening: the effect of participation on anxiety and attitude toward pregnancy in women with normal results. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol., 152, 540-543.
12. Ley, P. (1982): Satisfaction compliance and communication. Br. J. Clin. Psychol., 21, 241-254.
13. Simes, R.J., Tattersall, M.H., Coates, A.S., Raghaven, D., Solomon, H.G. and Smartt, H. (1986): Randomised comparison of procedures for obtaining informed consent in clinical trials of treatment for cancer. Br. Med. J., 293, 1065-1068.
14. Reid M. (1988): Consumer orientated studies in relation to pre-natal screening tests. Eur. J. Obstet. Gynaecol. Reprod. Biol., 28, 79-92.
15. Schapiro, M.C., Najman, A., Change, J., Keeping, D., Morrison, J. and Western, J.S. (1983): Information control and the exercise of power in the obstetrical encounter. Soc. Sci. Med., 17, 139-146.
16. Marteau, T.M., Johnston, M., Shaw, R.W. and Slack, J. (1989) Factors influencing the uptake of screening for open neural tube defects and amniocentesis to test for Downs syndrome. Br. J. Obstet. Gynaecol., 96, 739-748.
17. Thornton, J.G., Hewison, J., Lilford, R.J. and Vail, A. (1995): A randomised trial of three methods of giving information about prenatal testing. Br. Med. J., 311, 1127-1130.