Health care decision-making can be distorted by how risk/benefit data are presented

[Guest guest]

"It is clear ... that there is the potential for shared decision-making to be biased through the adoption of more persuasive presentations -- such as relative statistics. As a result, the underlying principle of shared decision-making -- that of empowering patients to make decisions most compatible with their values -- can be undermined."

 

 

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/schwitz/healthnews/2009/08/health-care-dec.html