Fifty percent of anaesthetists are worse than average at understanding statistics and risk

Anaesthesia

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 118-121

  Gibbison, B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BRISTOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ALGORITHM; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEART OUTPUT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PROBABILITY; RISK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS; ULTRADIAN RHYTHM; UNCERTAINTY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FORECASTING; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANESTHETISTS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FORECASTING; HUMANS; RISK; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84992344897     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.13690     Document Type: Article

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