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Helping journalists get it right: a physicians's guide to improving health care reporting.

Karen Stamm¹, John W Williams, Polly Hitchcock Noël, Rita Rubin.

Abstract

News reports are the way that most people, including many physicians and scientists, first learn about new developments in medicine. Because these reports can raise awareness, influence behavior, and confer credibility, physicians should share responsibility with the media for accurate reporting. Physicians can work with reporters to avoid sensationalizing tentative findings, overstating benefits, and making inappropriate generalizations. This article includes pragmatic suggestions for crafting effective news releases and explaining numerical data. It details "rules of the road" for interviews. Working collaboratively with news reporters to improve the quality of medical stories in the lay press benefits patients and physicians alike.

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Year: 2003 PMID： 12542589 PMCID： PMC1494815 DOI： 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2003.20220.x

Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Gen Intern Med ISSN： 0884-8734 Impact factor: 5.128

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6 in total

Helping journalists get it right: a physicians's guide to improving health care reporting.

1. Misunderstandings about the effects of race and sex on physicians' referrals for cardiac catheterization.

2. Coverage by the news media of the benefits and risks of medications.

3. Do we facilitate the scientific process and the development of dietary guidance when findings from single studies are publicized? An American Society for Nutritional Sciences controversy session report.

4. Numeracy and the medical student's ability to interpret data.

5. Print media coverage of research on passive smoking.

6. What's the relative risk? A method of correcting the odds ratio in cohort studies of common outcomes.

7. Press releases of science journal articles and subsequent newspaper stories on the same topic.

Review 8. When can odds ratios mislead?

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6. Commentary on: Misrepresentation of Randomized Controlled Trials in Press Releases and News coverage: A Cohort Study.