Communicating a Prognosis: a Randomized Trial of Survival Rate Language

J Gen Intern Med. 2019 Oct;34(10):1990-1991. doi: 10.1007/s11606-019-05056-w.

Authors

Eric P Silver¹, Stephen B Broomell¹, Alexander L Davis², Douglas B White³, Tamar Krishnamurti⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
² Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
³ Departments of Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁴ Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. [email protected].

No abstract available

Publication types

Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adult
Attitude to Death*
Female
Humans
Male
Physician-Patient Relations*
Practice Patterns, Physicians'
Surveys and Questionnaires
Survival Analysis*

Grants and funding

K24 HL148314/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States