Figure 1From: The over-optimistic portrayal of life-supporting treatments in newspapers and on the Internet: a cross-sectional study using extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation as an example The extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation users selected and reported by the Internet and newspapers. Abbreviations list: ECMO=Extra-corporeal Membrane Oxygenation. “” means that some stories of ECMO patients were selectively reported on the Internet web pages and in newspaper articles. ““ were the 23 ECMO patients who were only reported on Internet web pages. ““ were the 32 ECMO patients who were both reported on Internet web pages and newspaper articles. ““ were the 28 ECMO patients who were only reported in newspaper articles.Back to article page