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Patients Prefer Pictures to Numbers to Express Cardiovascular Benefit From Treatment

Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Bruce Arroll, Lydia Chan, Rod Jackson, Sue Wells and Timothy Kenealy
The Annals of Family Medicine May 2008, 6 (3) 213-217; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.795
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
MBChB, MGP, FRNZCGP
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Bruce Arroll
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Lydia Chan
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Rod Jackson
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Sue Wells
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vol. 6 no. 3 213-217
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.795
PubMed 
18474883

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The Annals of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication June 20, 2007
  • Revision received September 21, 2007
  • Accepted for publication October 9, 2007
  • Published online May 12, 2008.

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  1. Felicity Goodyear-Smith, MBChB, MGP, FRNZCGP1,
  2. Bruce Arroll, MBChB, PhD, FRNZCGP1,
  3. Lydia Chan, BSc1,
  4. Rod Jackson, MBChB, PhD, FAFPHM2,
  5. Sue Wells, MBChB, Dip Obs, MPH, FRNZCGP, FAFPHM2 and
  6. Timothy Kenealy, MBChB, PhD, FRNZCGP3
  1. 1Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
  2. 2Section of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
  3. 3Faculty of Medical and Health Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Felicity Goodyear-Smith, MBChB, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Science, University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland, New Zealand, f.goodyear-smith{at}auckland.ac.nz

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