Joana Romeiro, Sílvia Caldeira, Marcos Venicios Lopes
"Impaired Resilience (00210)" in patients under fertility treatment: Clinical validation study
International journal of nursing knowledge
medical errors radiation oncology sometimes involve tasks reliant practitioners grasp numeracy numeracy shown suboptimal across various health care professionals herein assess health numeracy among american society radiologic technologists asrt members numeracy understanding medicine instrument numi instrument measure numeracy general population adapted oncology study distributed asrt members n 14228 2017 per numi scoring health numeracy scores categorized low 07 low average 812 high average 1317 high 1820 impact cgy versus gy numeracy performance investigated spearmans rho wilcoxmannwhitney test used comparisons different groups total 662 eligible participants completed instrument identified radiation oncology professionals cgy gy numi scores approximately 2 respondents scored lowaverage approximately 40 scored highaverage approximately 58 scored high median score 180 although optimum numi score asrt members unknown one might expect cohort numeracy skills least high college freshmen roughly onesixth study group scored average score college freshmen numi 15 subset analysis numi questions pertaining radiation dose unit cgy vs gy respondents performed better cgy mean score 294 range 23 versus gy mean 291 range 03 p 011 study limited sample size overall numeracy quite good compared general population however range scores wide respondents lower scores may concerning suggesting numeracy may issue requires improvement subset studied cohort performance superior unit cgy thus adoption cgy standard unit reasonable