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Frequency of Prognostic Language in the 50 Conferences
|
Proportion of Conferences (n=50) n (%)a |
|
|---|---|
| Probabilistic | 41 (82) |
| Numeric | 10 (20) |
| Qualitative | 36 (72) |
| Absolute | 13 (26) |
| Nonprobabilistic | 20 (40) |
| General terms | 19 (38) |
| Opinion based | 9 (18) |
| Uncertainty based | 8 (16) |
| Emotion based | 3 (6) |
| Best-worst possible | 4 (8) |
Percentages add to greater than 100% because in some conferences, physicians used more than 1 type of language to communicate prog-nosis within a single family conference.
