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Steven Woloshin

Professor of medicine and community and family medicine, Dartmouth Institute
Verified email at Dartmouth.EDU
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[HTML][HTML] Presenting quantitative information about decision outcomes: a risk communication primer for patient decision aid developers

LJ Trevena, BJ Zikmund-Fisher, A Edwards… - BMC medical informatics …, 2013 - Springer
Background Making evidence-based decisions often requires comparison of two or more
options. Research-based evidence may exist which quantifies how likely the outcomes are …

Definition, reporting, and interpretation of composite outcomes in clinical trials: systematic review

G Cordoba, L Schwartz, S Woloshin, H Bae… - Bmj, 2010 - bmj.com
Objective To study how composite outcomes, which have combined several components
into a single measure, are defined, reported, and interpreted. Design Systematic review of …

Cancer survival: an overview of measures, uses, and interpretation

AB Mariotto, AM Noone, N Howlader… - Journal of the …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Survival statistics are of great interest to patients, clinicians, researchers, and policy makers.
Although seemingly simple, survival can be confusing: there are many different survival …

Helping doctors and patients make sense of health statistics

G Gigerenzer, W Gaissmaier… - … science in the …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Many doctors, patients, journalists, and politicians alike do not understand what health
statistics mean or draw wrong conclusions without noticing. Collective statistical illiteracy …

The role of numeracy in understanding the benefit of screening mammography

LM Schwartz, S Woloshin, WC Black… - Annals of internal …, 1997 - acpjournals.org
Background: Quantitative information about risks and benefits may be meaningful only to
patients who have some facility with basic probability and numerical concepts, a construct …

[HTML][HTML] False negative tests for SARS-CoV-2 infection—challenges and implications

S Woloshin, N Patel… - New England Journal of …, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
False Negative Tests for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 will help
in safely reopening the country, but only if tests are highly accurate. Several steps need to …

Time trends in pulmonary embolism in the United States: evidence of overdiagnosis

RS Wiener, LM Schwartz… - Archives of internal …, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
Background Computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) may improve detection
of life-threatening pulmonary embolism (PE), but this sensitive test may have a downside …

[HTML][HTML] Enthusiasm for cancer screening in the United States

LM Schwartz, S Woloshin, FJ Fowler Jr, HG Welch - Jama, 2004 - jamanetwork.com
ContextPublic health officials, physicians, and disease advocacy groups have worked hard
to educate individuals living in the United States about the importance of cancer screening …

Is language a barrier to the use of preventive services?

S Woloshin, LM Schwartz, SJ Katz… - Journal of general internal …, 1997 - Springer
Objective To isolate the effect of spoken language from financial barriers to care, we
examined the relation of language to use of preventive services in a system with universal …

Are increasing 5-year survival rates evidence of success against cancer?

HG Welch, LM Schwartz, S Woloshin - Jama, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
ContextIncreased 5-year survival for cancer patients is generally inferred to mean that
cancer treatment has improved and that fewer patients die of cancer. Increased 5-year …