Sylwia Kałucka
[The characteristic of a smoker at the elderly age]
Przeglad lekarski
investigated factors may foster hinder physicians cancer screening risk literacyspecifically ability understand evidence regarding screening effectiveness make evidencebased recommendations patients experiment physicians training interns residents read statistical information outcomes screening cancer decide whether recommend patient manipulated effectiveness screening effective vs ineffective reducing mortality demand patient get screened demand vs demand assessed participants comprehension presented evidence recommendation patient well apriori screening beliefs eg screening always good choice numeracy science literacy knowledge screening statistics statistical education demographics stronger positive apriori screening beliefs lower knowledge screening statistics lower numeracy related worse comprehension evidence physicians recommended ineffective screening showed good comprehension evidence physicians recommendations based perceived benefits screening perceived harms patients demands current study demonstrates comprehension cancer screening statistics ability infer potential benefits patients essential evidencebased recommendations however strong beliefs favor screening fostered promotion campaigns may influence physicians evaluate evidence specific screenings fostering physician numeracy skills could help counteract biases provide evidencebased recommendations patients