Table 2.

Distributions of Perceptions of Benefit of a New Treatment, by Rsk Presentation Format, Among 1439 Doctors and 1121 Patients Recently Discharged from Hospital, in Geneva, Switzerland

	Doctors
	Clearly better	Somewhat better	About the same	Somewhat worse	Clearly worse
Comprehensive information*, N = 242	27.7%	42.1%	29.3%	0.8%	0.0%
Absolute survival (96% v. 94%), N = 245	7.8%	44.1%	41.2%	5.3%	1.6%
Absolute mortality (4% v. 6%), N = 243	27.2%	41.2%	28.8%	2.9%	0.0%
Relative mortality reduction (by one third), N = 224	67.0%	26.8%	5.8%	0.4%	0.0%
Number needed to treat (50 to avoid 1 death), N = 239	34.3%	47.3%	16.3%	1.3%	0.8%
Relative survival extension (by half), N = 245	60.4%	31.4%	7.3%	0.4%	0.4%
	Patients
	Clearly better	Somewhat better	About the same	Somewhat worse	Clearly worse
Comprehensive information*, N = 264	23.5%	47.7%	24.8%	2.3%	1.9%
Absolute survival (96% v. 94%), N = 286	14.7%	37.1%	36.4%	8.7%	3.1%
Absolute mortality (4% v. 6%), N = 298	20.8%	46.0%	27.5%	3.0%	2.7%
Relative mortality reduction (by one third), N = 271	48.0%	41.3%	7.7%	1.8%	1.1%

* Absolute survival, absolute mortality, and relative mortality reduction