How Can the Understanding of Medical Statistics Be Improved?

Markus A. Feufel
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Markus A. Feufel

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Knowledge of medical treatments is usually not equally distributed between physicians and patients. Often, doctors need to analyze the available data in the medical domain and then communicate the results about possible options to the patient. MARKUS A. FEUFEL has focused his research on the challenge of this communication. As he describes in this video, his research team found that it is not only the patients who have difficulties understanding medical statistics but physicians as well. In particular, they noted these difficulties in connection with the statistical format called „relative risks”. As a consequence, they developed suggestions and interventions to improve the doctor-patient communication and the understanding of risks connected to medical data.

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https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10543

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Markus A. Feufel is Assistant Professor of Ergonomics at Technische Universität Berlin. Some of his previous affiliations include the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. His research is focused, among other topics, on risk communication and informed decision-making as well as bounded rationality and decision-making under uncertainty. He has received various awards for his academic work and won a Fulbright Fellowship.

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Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin)

Technische Universität Berlin traces its roots to the Königlich Technische Hochschule zu Berlin, established in 1879, and was refounded in 1946 with a mandate to combine technological expertise with social responsibility. TU Berlin The only university of technology in the German capital and among the largest of its kind in Germany, TU Berlin offers around 140 degree programmes to approximately 33,000 students. TU Berlin In addition to engineering and the natural sciences, the humanities, social sciences, planning sciences, and economics shape TU Berlin’s profile.
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Statistische Risiken und Unsicherheit in PatientInneninformationen

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Latest Thinking, 

How Can the Understanding of Medical Statistics Be Improved?, 

https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10543, 

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