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Daily Archive January 3rd, 2008

Reducing relative risk reduction

Filed in Research News
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CAN PSYCHOLOGISTS HELP DOCTORS MAKE BETTER DECISIONS? Gerd Gigerenzer, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has a piece in this month’s APA Observer about helping physicians understand screening tests. Some choice quotes: Medical doctors tend to think of psychologists as therapists, useful for emotionally disturbed patients, but not for members […]