Figure 3. Predicted Probability of Doctors Using Various Approaches When Discussing Risk According to Patients’ Understanding of their Risk of Recurrence.

Footnote: A generalized logit model was used to examine the association of the doctor-patient communication approach (none/words/numbers/both) with the accuracy of patient risk perception (zero risk, reasonably accurate, overestimation), while adjusting for sociodemographic and clinical factors. Based on this model, a patient’s predicted probability for each reported communication approach was calculated for their respective risk perception group when assuming site of Emory, age < 50, white, no college, no family history of breast cancer, no comorbidities, low clinically estimated risk of recurrence, stage I, no radiation or chemotherapy, and lumpectomy treatment