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Testing Numeric Formats for Presenting Data About Treatment Benefits and Harms

NCT00950014 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2944

Last updated 2010-04-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test comprehension of five numeric formats used to present data about treatment benefits and harms.

Conditions

  • Risk Communication

Interventions

OTHER

Presentation of drug efficacy and side effect data

Data presented in 1 of 5 numeric formats in each arm: percentage only, fixed frequency only, variable frequency, variable combination and fixed combination format.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Attorney General Consumer & Prescriber Education Grant

    collaborator OTHER

  • White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Lisa M Schwartz, MD, MS · White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center

  • Steven Woloshin, MD, MS · White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-08-31
Primary Completion
2009-09-30
Completion
2009-09-30

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