Simple and multistate survival curves: Can people learn to use them?

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 792-804

  Rakow, Tim ^a   Wright, Rebecca J ^a   Bull, Catherine ^b   Spiegelhalter, David J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b Hospital for Sick Children   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

numeracy; Risk communication; survival curves; visual displays

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870501986     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X12451057     Document Type: Article

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