Abstracts tagged "Racial Disparities and Risk Communication"

Abstract Number: 3014 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Does the Order or Amount of Risk-Benefit Information Presented Influence patients’ Perceived Value of a Proposed New Medication?
Liana Fraenkel¹, Richard Street², Harjinder Chowdhary³, Sarah Swift³ and Ellen Peters⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare Systems, New Haven, CT, ²Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, ³Yale University, New Haven, CT, ⁴Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Background/Purpose: The order and amount of information has been shown to influence risk perceptions related to hazards. In this study we sought to examine whether…