Adrián Soto-Mota|Eduardo Carrillo Maravilla|Jose Luis Cárdenas Fragoso|Oscar Arturo Lozano-Cruz|Alfonso Herrero|Sergio Ponce de León Rosales
Evaluation of statistical illiteracy in Latin American clinicians and the piloting evaluation of a short course across multiple timepoints
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán|Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán|Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán|Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán|Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán|Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán
clinicians require statistical interpretation skills keep date evidencebased recommendations field however statistical illiteracy among clinicians highly prevalent problem farreaching consequences available report statistical literacy improvements educational interventions measure long benefits last estimate statistical illiteracy among latinamerican clinicians across multiple levels training evaluate 10h course multiple timepointsusing online questionnaire evaluated selfperceived statistical proficiency scientific literature reading habits statistical literacy using adaptation quick risk test separately evaluated statistical proficiency 10h statistics course group internal medicine residents tertiary center mexico city across multiple time points november 2020 february 2021data 392 clinicians 9 latin american countries analyzed clinicians 85 failed adaptation quick risk test mean score 2610 iqr14 10h course significantly improved scores internal medicine residents n 16 3810 iqr18 8310 iqr14 p 001 however scores dropped one 2 months 7710 iqr16 61 10 iqr22 respectivelystatistical illiteracy highly prevalent among latin american clinicians shortterm educational interventions effective benefits quickly fade away medical boards medical schools need periodically teach evaluate statistical proficiency ameliorate issues