FRAMING EFFECTS ON PHYSICIANS' JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING
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Thanh C Bui1, Heather A Krieger2, Jennifer S Blumenthal-Barby2
11 Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
Abstract:
This study aimed to assess physicians' susceptibility to framing effects in clinical judgment and decision making. A survey was administered online to 159 general internists in the United States. Participants were randomized into two groups, in which clinical scenarios varied in their framings: frequency vs percentage, with cost information vs without, female patient vs male patient, and mortality vs survival. Results showed that physicians' recommendations for patients in hypothetical scenarios were significantly different when the predicted probability of the outcomes was presented in frequency versus percentage form and when it was presented in mortality rate vs survival rate of the same magnitude. Physicians' recommendations were not different for other framing effects.
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