Table 3 Six groups of concepts that people need to understand and apply to be able to assess treatment claims and make informed health care choices [31]
| 1. Recognising the need for fair comparisons of treatments | |
| 2. Judging whether a comparison of treatments is a fair comparison | |
| 3. Understanding the role of chance | |
| 4. Considering all the relevant fair comparisons | |
| 5. Understanding the results of fair comparisons of treatments | |
| 6. Judging whether fair comparisons of treatments are relevant |