Italy: opinion on medical information access 2018, by education level
This statistic depicts the results of a survey asking about the direct access to medical information in Italy in 2018, by education level. According to data, 61.7 percent of respondents who held at least a university degree thought that it was useful to get as much information as possible in order to autonomously taking health-related decisions. By contrast, 45.5 percent of patients with a high school diploma stated that too much information could confuse those who were not expert and that physicians should be the only ones to entitled to decide about health issues.