Dear List
Many thanks to
Juan for sharing this eye-opening systematic review. It is interesting
that the authors' 2015 systematic review, assessing the same research
question among patients, found similar problem (
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25531451) . The authors conclude that
"Clinicians should discuss accurate and balanced information about
intervention benefits and harms with patients, providing the opportunity
to develop realistic expectations and make informed decisions.". The authors' current systematic review among clinicians tells us that
clinicians themselves underestimates the harm and over estimate the benefits. My question: What should be done for solving this :
BOTH
patients and clinicians have SIMILAR problem: Overestimating of
benefits & Underestimating of the harms. How clinicians can solve the
problem of patients while they have same problem? What are you
suggestions?
I am looking forward to receive your ideas. I hope this list will have a good
discussion about these two systematic reviews.