Figure 2

The comparison of survival rates of extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation users with those reported in the literature. Abbreviations list: ECMO=Extra-corporeal Membrane Oxygenation; ECLS 2014= Extracorporeal Life Support Registry Report International Summary January 2014. “” is the mean and 95% confidence interval of the survival rate of stories on the Internet. “” is the mean and 95% confidence interval of the survival rate of patients on the Internet. “” is the mean and 95% confidence interval of the survival rate of stories in newspapers. “” is the mean and 95% confidence interval of the survival rate of patients in newspapers. “” is the mean and 95% confidence interval of the survival rate of stories. “” is the mean and 95% confidence interval of the survival rate of patients. “Over-optimistic” means that if the mean and 95% confidence interval are located entirely at the right side of the dotted line, the survival rate of ECMO users shown on the media is significantly higher than the survival rate obtained from the literature. For example, based on the left upper part, the is located entirely at the right side of the dotted line, “The Average Survival Rate of ECMO Use in Taiwan” (Survival Rate=0.43). Therefore, the survival rate of stories on the Internet is over-optimistic as compared to “The Average Survival Rate of ECMO Use in Taiwan”.