Natural Frequencies Do Not Foster Public Understanding of Medical Test Results

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Medical decision making

• Publication date

  2016-03-31

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1177/0272989X16640785PMID 27034447
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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