Numeric, Verbal, and Visual Formats of Conveying Health Risks: Suggested Best Practices and Future Recommendations

By Isaac Lipkus. Medical decision making, 2007

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Communicating with parents about vaccination: a framework for health professionals (2012, background): “, 1 in 100) or percentages are preferable [63].”
Beyond Comprehension (2012, methodology): “, 2009) • supplementing numeric information with visual representations (e.g., pictographs and other graphical displays that allow each class in a part–whole relation to be represented discretely, Garcia-Retamero & Galesic, 2009; Reyna & Brainerd, 2008; this must be done carefully as all visual repr”
The power of representation and interpretation: Doubling statistical reasoning performance with icons and frequentist interpretations of ambiguous numbers (2014, background): “Also, there is evidence in the medical decision-making literature that similarly converges on icon arrays as a particularly helpful pictorial format (e.g., Feldman-Stewart et al., 2000; Lipkus, 2007; Paling, 2003).”
Individual Differences in Graph Literacy: Overcoming Denominator Neglect in Risk Comprehension (2012, background): “difficulties in professionals and the public alike (Ancker, Senathirajah, Kukafka, & Starren, 2006; Fuller, Dudley, & Blacktop, 2002; Lipkus, 2007; Lipkus & Hollands, 1999).”
The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works (2021, background): “A large body of research is dedicated to examining if visualizations can help doctors and patients incorporate data into health and wellness planning (for reviews, see Ancker et al., 2006; Garcia-Retamero & Cokely, 2017; Garcia-Retamero et al., 2012; Lipkus, 2007; Lipkus & Hollands, 1999).”
Effective communication of uncertainty in the IPCC reports (2012, background): “The terms should rely on a common stem (likely) accompanied by modifiers that determine the terms’ ordering (Lipkus 2007).”
Public perception of climate risk and adaptation in the UK: A review of the literature (2014, background): “A number of resources make recommendations as to how information about risk and uncertainty can be most effectively presented (see for example Lipkus, 2007; Spiegelhalter et al., 2011).”
Presenting quantitative information about decision outcomes: a risk communication primer for patient decision aid developers (2013, background): “with lower numeracy and sufficient graph literacy, visual displays can improve understanding [62,65,132,133].”
Statistical Education in the 21st Century: A Review of Challenges, Teaching Innovations and Strategies for Reform (2012, background): “Recent publications by Edwards, Elwyn, Covey, Matthews and Pill (2001), Gigerenzer, Gaissmaier, Kurz-Milcke, Schwartz and Woloshin (2007), and Lipkus (2007) reflect the need for training statisticians to communicate their findings more effectively.”
How does communication heal? Pathways linking clinician-patient communication to health outcomes. (2009, background): “Clinical evidence is typically in the form of probabilities applicable to populations, not individual patients [41].”