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Valuing uncertainty in risk estimates for treatment effects, and its impact on decision-making

Dates:16 December 2013
Times:14:00 - 15:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:Institute of Population Health
Who is it for:Adults, Current University students, University staff
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Host: Manchester Centre for Health Economics

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Author: Nick Bansback, The University of British Columbia

Increasing support for patients to play a greater role in the treatment decision-making process has led to the development of decision aids to inform patients of the benefits and harms of treatments and elicit their treatment preferences. However, most decision aids fail to report the ambiguity/imprecision in evidence (e.g. confidence intervals in risks). Since this may vary between treatments, patients may be led to make uninformed decisions - failing to choose what is best for them. This presentation will describe a discrete choice experiment that explores the extent which simple descriptions of imprecision influences hypothetical treatment choices. The implications for decision aids will be discussed.

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