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'The thing is not knowing': patients' perspectives on surveillance of an indeterminate pulmonary nodule

scientific article published on 16 December 2012

A Clear-eyed View of Restasis and Chronic Dry Eye Disease

scientific article published on 2 January 2018

A National Survey of the Frequency of Drug Company Detailing Visits and Free Sample Closets in Practices Delivering Primary Care

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

A Randomized Trial Testing US Food and Drug Administration "Breakthrough" Language

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

A genetic risk factor for periodic limb movements in sleep

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

A new scale for assessing perceptions of chance: a validation study

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

Accountable prescribing

scientific article published on July 2013

Advertising by academic medical centers

scientific article

Appropriate Perspective and Context for Newly Approved Medications, Including Flibanserin-Reply.

scientific article

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

scientific article (publication date: 14 June 2000)

Arguing about grades

scientific article published on 01 March 2000

Assessing values for health: numeracy matters

scientific article published in September 2001

Association of age, sex, and race with body iron stores in adults: analysis of NHANES III data

scientific article

Association of aspirin use and hormone receptor status with breast cancer risk

scientific article (publication date: 22 September 2004)

Attitudes about low-dose computed tomography screening for lung cancer: a survey of American Thoracic Society Clinicians

scientific article published in February 2015

Authors' reply to Quantrill, Benger, Ripley and colleagues, Roach, Rogers, and Haldar and colleagues

scientific article published on 20 August 2013

Bringing the FDA's Information to Market

scientific article published in November 2009

Can patients interpret health information? An assessment of the medical data interpretation test

scientific article

Cancer Care Institutions and Advertising-Reply.

scientific article

Cancer Center Advertising-Where Hope Meets Hype

scientific article published on 11 July 2016

Cancer Screening Campaigns — Getting Past Uninformative Persuasion ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 November 2012

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

scientific article published on November 2014

Celebrity endorsements of cancer screening

scientific article published in May 2005

Changing disease definitions: implications for disease prevalence. Analysis of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994.

scientific article published on March 1999

Characteristics of Interim Publications of Randomized Clinical Trials and Comparison With Final Publications.

scientific article published in January 2018

Choosing where to have major surgery: who makes the decision?

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Clinical Equipoise and Shared Decision-making in Pulmonary Nodule Management. A Survey of American Thoracic Society Clinicians.

scientific article

Clinical problem-solving: if at first you don't succeed

ClinicalTrials.gov and Drugs@FDA: A Comparison of Results Reporting for New Drug Approval Trials

scientific article

Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare: evidence for action on too much medicine

scientific article published on 06 December 2019

Communicating data about the benefits and harms of treatment: a randomized trial

scientific article

Communicating uncertainties about prescription drugs to the public: a national randomized trial

scientific article published on September 2011

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

scientific article

Deprescribing psychotropic medications in children: results of a national qualitative study

scientific article published on 13 December 2019

Direct-to-consumer advertisements for HIV antiretroviral medications: a progress report

scientific article

Direct-to-consumer advertisements for prescription drugs: what are Americans being sold?

scientific article published in The Lancet

Disclosure of study funding and author conflicts of interest in press releases and the news: a retrospective content analysis with two cohorts

scientific article published on 08 January 2021

Distribution of C-reactive protein values in the United States

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Do increased 5-year survival rates in prostate cancer indicate better outcomes?

Do physicians understand cancer screening statistics? A national survey of primary care physicians in the United States

scientific article published in March 2012

Drug treatment of obesity--reply

scientific article published on 01 August 2014

Enthusiasm for cancer screening in the United States

scientific article published in January 2004

Erratum to: Methodological Approaches to Evaluate the Impact of FDA Drug Safety Communications

scientific article published on 01 September 2015

Establishing a library of resources to help people understand key concepts in assessing treatment claims-The "Critical thinking and Appraisal Resource Library" (CARL)

scientific article published on 24 July 2017

Estimating the impact of adding C-reactive protein as a criterion for lipid lowering treatment in the United States

scientific article published on February 2007

Exercise and Breast Cancer ⬇️

scientific article published on September 4, 1997

False Negative Tests for SARS-CoV-2 Infection - Challenges and Implications

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Financial Integration's Impact On Care Delivery And Payment Reforms: A Survey Of Hospitals And Physician Practices

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Flawed inferences about screening mammography's benefit based on observational data

scientific article published on 15 December 2008

Focusing on overdiagnosis as a driver of too much medicine

scientific article published on 17 August 2018

Fractional Flow Reserve–Guided PCI in Stable Coronary Disease ⬇️

scientific article published on December 13, 2012

Getting to Better Prescription Drug Information ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2012

Giving legs to restless legs: a case study of how the media helps make people sick

scientific article

Group writing of letters to the editor as the goal of journal club

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Health of the public: the private-sector challenge

scientific article published on 01 December 1996

Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics

scientific article

How Do Women View Risk-Based Mammography Screening? A Qualitative Study

scientific article published on 31 July 2018

How a charity oversells mammography ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 2 August 2012)

How can we help people make sense of medical data?

scientific article

How do elderly patients decide where to go for major surgery? Telephone interview survey

scientific article

How many deaths are due to medical error? Getting the number right

scientific article

How the FDA forgot the evidence: the case of donepezil 23 mg ⬇️

scientific article published on March 22, 2012

Implications of expanding disease definitions: the case of osteoporosis

scientific article published on November 2007

Influence of medical journal press releases on the quality of associated newspaper coverage: retrospective cohort study

scientific article published on 27 January 2012

Internal Medicine Physicians' Financial Relationships with Industry: An Updated National Estimate

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Invited commentary: early-stage breast cancer treatment for elderly women-does one size fit all?

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

Is language a barrier to the use of preventive services? ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 1997

Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics ⬇️

scientific book published on March 8, 2013

Language barriers in medicine in the United States

scientific article published on 01 March 1995

Late outcomes after laparoscopic surgery for gastroesophageal reflux

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

Lost in transmission--FDA drug information that never reaches clinicians

scientific article

Low "T" as in "template": how to sell disease

scientific article

Lung Cancer Screening Websites-Balanced Information vs Advertisement

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Making sense of risk information on the web ⬇️

scientific article published on September 27, 2003

Marketing medicine to the public: a reader's guide

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Media Coverage of FDA Drug Safety Communications about Zolpidem: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis.

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Media coverage of scientific meetings: too much, too soon?

scientific article

Media reporting on research presented at scientific meetings: more caution needed.

scientific article published on June 2006

Medical Marketing in the United States, 1997-2016

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Medical communication companies and continuing medical education: clouding the sunshine?

scientific article published on 01 December 2013

Methodological approaches to evaluate the impact of FDA drug safety communications

scientific article published in June 2015

Misunderstandings about the effects of race and sex on physicians' referrals for cardiac catheterization

scientific article published in July 1999

News media coverage of screening mammography for women in their 40s and tamoxifen for primary prevention of breast cancer

scientific article

Not So Silver Lining ⬇️

scientific article published on March 28, 2011

Numbers needed to decide

scientific article published on 11 August 2009

Office visits and analgesic prescriptions for musculoskeletal pain in US: 1980 vs. 2000.

scientific article

Older patients perceptions of "unnecessary" tests and referrals: a national survey of Medicare beneficiaries

scientific article

On the prevention and treatment of exaggeration

scientific article published on February 2003

Overcoming overuse: the way forward is not standing still—an essay by Steven Woloshin and Lisa M Schwartz

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Overdiagnosis: how cancer screening can turn indolent pathology into illness.

scientific article published on 26 May 2014

Overdiagnosis: what it is and what it isn't

scientific article

Overstating the evidence for lung cancer screening: the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP) study

scientific article published in November 2007

Participation in mammography screening

scientific article published on October 2007

Patient decision making: in search of good decisions

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Patient-Centered Research: Assessing Values for Current Health: Numeracy Matters.

scientific article published in October 2000

Patients and medical statistics. Interest, confidence, and ability

scientific article

Patients' Knowledge, Beliefs, and Distress Associated with Detection and Evaluation of Incidental Pulmonary Nodules for Cancer: Results from a Multicenter Survey

scientific article published on March 2016

Perceived adequacy of tangible social support and health outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 1997

Physicians' Knowledge About FDA Approval Standards and Perceptions of the "Breakthrough Therapy" Designation.

scientific article

Physicians' Perspectives on FDA Approval Standards and Off-label Drug Marketing

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Policy makers must act on incomplete evidence in responding to COVID-19

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Population-based risk for complications after transthoracic needle lung biopsy of a pulmonary nodule: an analysis of discharge records

scientific article

Postmarket studies required by the US Food and Drug Administration for new drugs and biologics approved between 2009 and 2012: cross sectional analysis.

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Presenting quantitative information about decision outcomes: a risk communication primer for patient decision aid developers

scientific article

Press releases by academic medical centers: not so academic? ⬇️

scientific article

Press releases: translating research into news

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Promoting healthy skepticism in the news: helping journalists get it right

scientific article published on 20 November 2009

Promotion of "low T" and the role of testosterone clinical trials--reply

scientific article published in February 2014

Prostate-specific antigen levels in the United States: implications of various definitions for abnormal

scientific article

Providing clinicians and patients with actual prognosis: cancer in the context of competing causes of death

scientific article published on November 2014

Psychotropic medications for highly vulnerable children

scientific article published on 29 March 2018

Ramifications of screening for breast cancer: 1 in 4 cancers detected by mammography are pseudocancers

scientific article published in March 2006

Randomized Study of Providing Evidence Context to Mitigate Physician Misinterpretation Arising From Off-Label Drug Promotion

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Ratio measures in leading medical journals: structured review of accessibility of underlying absolute risks

scientific article

Reducing the risk that patients get it wrong

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

Resource use and guideline concordance in evaluation of pulmonary nodules for cancer: too much and too little care

scientific article

Risk charts: putting cancer in context

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Risk communication in clinical practice: putting cancer in context.

scientific article

Screening for cervical cancer: will women accept less?

scientific article published in February 2005

Screening men for prostate and colorectal cancer in the United States: does practice reflect the evidence?

scientific article published in March 2003

Setting the revisit interval in primary care

scientific article

Skin biopsy rates and incidence of melanoma: population based ecological study

scientific article

Smoke-free movies: sense or censorship?

scientific article published in January 2002

Still awaiting screening facts

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Symptoms and treatment burden of gastroesophageal reflux disease: validating the GERD assessment scales

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

The Drug Facts Box: Improving the communication of prescription drug information

scientific article published on 13 August 2013

The Fate of FDA Postapproval Studies

scientific article published on 01 September 2017

The Role of Numeracy in Understanding the Benefit of Screening Mammography

scientific article published on December 1, 1997

The U.S. Postal Service and cancer screening--stamps of approval?

scientific article

The benefits and harms of mammography screening: understanding the trade-offs

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

The case for letting information speak for itself

scientific article published on 01 March 2001

The drug facts box: providing consumers with simple tabular data on drug benefit and harm

scientific article

The effectiveness of a primer to help people understand risk: two randomized trials in distinct populations

scientific article published in February 2007

The exaggerated relations between diet, body weight and mortality: the case for a categorical data approach

scientific article published in March 2005

The media matter: a call for straightforward medical reporting

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

The new weight-loss drugs, lorcaserin and phentermine-topiramate: slim pickings?

scientific article published in April 2014

The risk of death by age, sex, and smoking status in the United States: putting health risks in context

scientific article published on 10 June 2008

The role of patients and providers in the timing of follow-up visits. Telephone Care Study Group

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The sea of uncertainty surrounding ductal carcinoma in situ--the price of screening mammography

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The value of benefit data in direct-to-consumer drug ads.

scientific article

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

scientific article (publication date: 9 May 2011)

Timeliness of Postmarket Studies for New Pharmaceuticals Approved Between 2009 and 2012: a Cross-Sectional Analysis

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Tobacco money: up in smoke?

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Too Little? Too Much? Primary care physicians' views on US health care: a brief report

scientific article

Treatment and Health Outcomes of Women and Men in a Cohort With Coronary Artery Disease ⬇️

scientific article published on July 28, 1997

Trends in Testosterone Prescribing for Age-related Hypogonadism in Men With and Without Heart Disease

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Trends in diagnostic testing following a national guideline for evaluation of dyspepsia

scientific article published on April 1996

US Food and Drug Administration Approval of Flibanserin: Even the Score Does Not Add Up

scientific article published on 01 April 2016

US Food and Drug Administration and design of drug approval studies

scientific article published on 01 November 2014

US women's attitudes to false positive mammography results and detection of ductal carcinoma in situ: cross sectional survey

scientific article published on June 2000

US women's attitudes to false-positive mammography results and detection of ductal carcinoma in situ: cross-sectional survey

scientific article

Using a drug facts box to communicate drug benefits and harms: two randomized trials

scientific article published on 16 February 2009

Using radiology reports to encourage evidence-based practice in the evaluation of small, incidentally detected pulmonary nodules. A preliminary study

scientific article published on February 2014

Visual Representations of Risk Enhance Long-Term Retention of Risk Information: A Randomized Trial

scientific article published on 11 January 2019

What do you mean, a spot?: A qualitative analysis of patients' reactions to discussions with their physicians about pulmonary nodules

scientific article

What's the rush? The dissemination and adoption of preliminary research results

scientific article published in March 2006

When a test is too good: how CT pulmonary angiograms find pulmonary emboli that do not need to be found

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When do changes in cancer survival mean progress? The insight from population incidence and mortality

scientific article published on November 2014

When should ulcerative colitis patients undergo colectomy for dysplasia? Mismatch between patient preferences and physician recommendations

scientific article

Winding back the harms of too much medicine

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Women's perceptions of breast cancer risk: how you ask matters

scientific article published on July 1999

Women's understanding of the mammography screening debate

scientific article published in May 2000

Women's views on breast cancer risk and screening mammography: a qualitative interview study.

scientific article published in May 2001

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