Background Effective risk communication is essential for informed decision making.
Unfortunately, many people struggle to understand typical risk communications because …

Background Making evidence-based decisions often requires comparison of two or more
options. Research-based evidence may exist which quantifies how likely the outcomes are …

The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 has already had serious worldwide health, socio-
economic, political, and educational consequences. In the present study, we investigated …

Background: Effective communication of risks and benefits to patients is critical for shared
decision making. Purpose: To review the comparative effectiveness of methods of …

Forming connections between human performance and design, this new edition of
Engineering Psychology and Human Performance examines human–machine interaction …

Informed decision making requires that people understand health risks. Unfortunately, many
people are not risk literate and are biased by common risk communication practices. In this …

We review decision making along the cancer continuum in the contemporary context of
informed and shared decision making in which patients are encouraged to take a more …

Background Decision aid developers have to convey complex task-specific numeric
information in a way that minimizes bias and promotes understanding of the options …

This review briefly examines the vast range of techniques used to communicate risk
assessments arising from statistical analysis. After discussing essential psychological and …

The onus on the average person is greater than ever before to make sense of large amounts
of readily accessible quantitative information, but the ability and confidence to do so are …