Reducing the Influence of Anecdotal Reasoning on People’s Health Care Decisions: Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Statistics?

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Medical decision making

• Publication date

  2005-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1177/0272989X05278931PMID 16061891
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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