“Both patients and clinicians need ready access to high-quality, unbiased, easy-to-understand information about the benefits and harms of treatments and tests. This information needs to be discussed together by clinicians AND patients, so that the decisions that are made are informed ones,” she says.
The study had no commercial funding and the authors have no relevant disclosures.
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