Open AccessInadequate Presentation of Evidence in an Internal Medicine Conference
Author(s) -
Michael Allen,
Brian O’Brien,
D Frcpc,
Katie Lightfoot Ma Md Candidate,
Tanya MacLeod
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
canadian journal of general internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2369-1778
pISSN - 1911-1606
DOI - 10.22374/cjgim.v11i2.142
Subject(s) - medicine , presentation (obstetrics) , number needed to treat , absolute (philosophy) , relative risk , frequency , family medicine , statistics , epistemology , mathematics , surgery , philosophy , confidence interval
Studies have found that physicians are more likely to consider therapy effective when information is presented in relative terms (e.g., RRR, OR, HR) rather than in absolute terms (ARR, NNT). In an earlier study of family physician (FP) therapeutics conferences, we found that speakers presented data more frequently in relative than absolute terms, but most frequently in general terms such as frequencies, percentages, graphs, and P-values with no data.