Clinical Trial: Determinants of Primary Care Health Professionals' Numeracy Skills and Practices and Association With Patient Health Literacy and Quality of Care

U.S., Jan. 31 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07379086) titled 'Determinants of Primary Care Health Professionals' Numeracy Skills and Practices and Association With Patient Health Literacy and Quality of Care' on Jan. 23.

Brief Summary: To enable appropriate risk representation for patients, health care professionals (HCPs) must have a personal understanding of quantitative data. To date, a limited number of studies on physicians' numeracy skills and practices show that, although physicians perform better than the general population, not all physicians have mastered basic numeracy skills. Low numeracy among physicians was associated with lower quality adherence to good practice recommendations,...