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SUMMARY:Rothschild Lecture: Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Hea
 lth Statistics - Gerd Gigerenzer (Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschu
 ng)
DTSTART:20161114T160000Z
DTEND:20161114T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Efficient health care requires informed doctors and patients. 
 Yet studies consistently show that most physicians have great difficulties
  understanding health statistics. This widespread innumeracy makes informe
 d decision-making difficult\, a problem amplified by conflicts of interest
  and defensive medicine. Here I report about the efforts of the Berlin Har
 ding Center to help professionals and laypeople to understand evidence\, a
 nd stamp out the use of misleading statistics in pamphlets\, journals\, an
 d the press. Raising taxes or rationing care is often seen as the only via
 ble alternative to exploding health care costs. There is\, however\, a thi
 rd option: by promoting health numeracy\, better care can be had for less 
 money.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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