Formats for Improving Risk Communication in Medical Tradeoff Decisions

By Erika A. Waters, N. Weinstein, Graham A Colditz, Karen M. Emmons. 2006

174 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Statistics and Probability

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Valerie F. Reyna

In General Health Professions

1. Valerie F. Reyna
2. K. S. Thomson
3. Daniel M. Oppenheimer
4. Ellen Peters

In Statistics and Probability

1. Valerie F. Reyna
2. Julie Arnold Shah
3. Paul K. J. Han
4. W. Nelson
5. N. Dieckmann
6. Ellen Peters

Citations in the corpus

• Improving Robot Controller Transparency Through Autonomous Policy Explanation (2017, background): “Study results have indicated that achieving comprehension of control logic leads to improved team performance [46, 28, 39] and prevention of automation abuse [30].”
• The Impact of POMDP-Generated Explanations on Trust and Performance in Human-Robot Teams (2016, background): “A study of risk communication in medical trade-off decisions showed that people performed better when receiving numeric expressions of uncertainty in percentage (67%) rather than frequency (2 out of 3) form [39].”
• How numeracy influences risk comprehension and medical decision making. (2009, background): “In a large survey of cancer patients (N = 328), Weinfurt et al. (2003) asked participants to estimate the chances that they would benefit from an experimental cancer treatment.”
• Numeric, Verbal, and Visual Formats of Conveying Health Risks: Suggested Best Practices and Future Recommendations (2007, background): “• Avoid having the target audience undergo complex calculations.(76) Simplify the calculations (e.”