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Can colored dots help patients make medical decisions?
07 April 2006
News > Design of health information
When Gary Sherman, a senior technician at an insurance company, was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 2003, his doctor showed him the photographic images taken from his colonoscopy. The doctor pointed with his pencil at the image of the ileum, the end of the intestinal tract that showed evidence of the disease…
Perhaps it would have helped if his doctor could have used the kind of graphic tools researchers are now testing to see whether pictures of squares, colored dots and simple charts can help patients make complicated medical decisions.
Source - www.insnews.org/health/focus/2006/03/dots.decisions.htm
Perhaps it would have helped if his doctor could have used the kind of graphic tools researchers are now testing to see whether pictures of squares, colored dots and simple charts can help patients make complicated medical decisions.
Source - www.insnews.org/health/focus/2006/03/dots.decisions.htm
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