Modeling Patient Decision-Making: The Role of Base-Rate and Anecdotal Information
dc.contributor.author | Freymuth, Angela K. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Ronan, George F. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T15:21:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T15:21:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004-09 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Freymuth, Angela K.; Ronan, George F.; (2004). "Modeling Patient Decision-Making: The Role of Base-Rate and Anecdotal Information." Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings 11(3): 211-216. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44856> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1068-9583 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-3572 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44856 | |
dc.description.abstract | Guidelines for managing patient–physician relationships often stem from either paternalistic or shared decision-making perspectives. Despite a number of advantages shown for the shared decision-making model, questions remain as to whether lay people make the most optimal decisions about their health care. This study explored the influence of anecdotal and base-rate information on health-care decisions. Three hundred and seventeen undergraduates read two vignettes describing a fictitious disease, followed by a description of two potential treatment protocols. The comparison treatment was 50% effective and accompanied by an anecdote that described a patient whose treatment resulted in an ambiguous outcome. A second treatment was presented as 30, 50, 70, or 90% effective, and accompanied by an anecdote that described a patient whose treatment resulted in a positive, ambiguous, or negative outcome. Subjects weighted anecdotal information more heavily than base-rate, or statistical, information when the anecdotal information was clearly positive or negative. Subjects presented with ambiguous anecdotal information weighed base-rate information most heavily. Implications for enhancing patient decision-making are discussed. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 63835 bytes | |
dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Clinical Decision-making | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Patient Decision-making | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Clinical Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Public Health/Gesundheitswesen | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Health Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Medical Decision-making | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Anecdote | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Base-rate | en_US |
dc.title | Modeling Patient Decision-Making: The Role of Base-Rate and Anecdotal Information | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Psychiatry | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuropsychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Department of Psychology, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuropsychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44856/1/10880_2004_Article_489105.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:JOCS.0000037615.23350.f3 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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