Patients and medical statistics: Interest, confidence, and ability

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 996-1000

  Woloshin, Steven ^a,b   Schwartz, Lisa M ^a,b   Welch, H Gilbert ^a,b  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Patient education; Statistic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

EID: 28444486009     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2005.0179.x     Document Type: Article

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