Impact of numeracy on understanding of prostate cancer risk reduction in PSA screening

Kevin Koo; Charles D. Brackett; Ellen H. Eisenberg; Kelly A. Kieffer; Elias S. Hyams

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0190357

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Impact of numeracy on understanding of prostate cancer risk reduction in PSA screening

Kevin Koo ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: kevin.koo@hitchcock.org

Affiliation Section of Urology, Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0627-5518

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Charles D. Brackett,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America
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Ellen H. Eisenberg,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America
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Kelly A. Kieffer,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America
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Elias S. Hyams

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Urology, Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America
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Impact of numeracy on understanding of prostate cancer risk reduction in PSA screening

Kevin Koo,
Charles D. Brackett,
Ellen H. Eisenberg,
Kelly A. Kieffer,
Elias S. Hyams

Published: December 28, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190357

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