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Service users' and providers' understanding of probabilities in prenatal screening

2008-01-01

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Pregnant women are routinely offered serum screening tests for Down's syndrome, open neural tube defects and Edward's syndrome. Informed decisions rely on health professionals communicating probabilities, and service users understanding this information. However, cognitive psychology research has established that people do not draw mathematically correct inferences from probabilistic screening information. This th...

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Literature Corpus work: c6ce4e64-334d-5494-b5fe-4816381e8799
DOI: 10.17638/03069596

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