Does Provision of an Evidence-Based Information Change Public Willingness to Accept a Screening Test ?

Gianfranco Domenighetti

Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie from Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie

Abstract: The basic requirement for patient decision making is the provision by the physician of an essential relevant and understandable information (Evidence Based) allowing him to decide whether he wish or not to receive the proposed treatment. This analysis shows that the willingness to undergo a doubtful screening test (about 70 % false positive responses) for a rare cancer by the general population change dramatically (60% versus 13,5%) according to the quality of information provided. This result, facing the impressive increase of diagnostic and screening procedures, could have important economical, ethical, clinical, public health and legal implications.

Keywords: health care markets; information; decision making; doctor-patient relationship; screening; diagnostic procedures; evidence based medicine; public health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9 pages
Date: 1999-01
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Published in Health Expectations, vol. 3 (2), 2000, pp. 145-150

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