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# Increase the reader's ability to understand the contents of the article. Research has shown that physicians have difficulty reading medical research articles. Physicians have trouble quantifying benefits of treatments and diagnostic tests <ref name="pmid3701813">{{cite journal |author=Bergman D, Pantell R |title=The impact of reading a clinical study on treatment decisions of physicians and residents |journal=J Med Educ |volume=61 |issue=5 |pages=380-6 |year=1986 |id=PMID 3701813}}</ref><ref name="pmid12213145">{{cite journal |author=Beasley B, Woolley D |title=Evidence-based medicine knowledge, attitudes, and skills of community faculty |journal=J Gen Intern Med |volume=17 |issue=8 |pages=632-9 |year=2002 |id=PMID 12213145}}</ref><ref name="pmid7315859">{{cite journal |author=Berwick D, Fineberg H, Weinstein M |title=When doctors meet numbers |journal=Am J Med |volume=71 |issue=6 |pages=991-8 |year=1981 |id=PMID 7315859}}</ref>. A specific example of this difficulty is that physicians have difficulty interpreting relative versus absolute effects <ref name="pmid7950558">{{cite journal |author=Bucher H, Weinbacher M, Gyr K |title=Influence of method of reporting study results on decision of physicians to prescribe drugs to lower cholesterol concentration |journal=BMJ |volume=309 |issue=6957 |pages=761-4 |year=1994 |id=PMID 7950558}}</ref>
# Provide building blocks that Wiki authors can reference to when writing about this topic (in this case, screening for colorectal cancer). The format below is based on prior work about "critically appraised topics" (PMID 15588311, PMID 15579428, PMID 15204609, PMID 15105349, PMID 14728311, PMID 11702349).