Patients Prefer Pictures to Numbers to Express Cardiovascular Benefit From Treatment
- 1 May 2008
- journal article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in The Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 6 (3) , 213-217
Abstract
PURPOSE This study aimed to determine which methods of expressing a preventive medication’s benefit encourage patients with known cardiovascular disease to decide to take the medication and which methods patients prefer.Keywords
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