Low health literacy and health outcomes: an updated systematic review

ND Berkman, SL Sheridan, KE Donahue… - Annals of internal …, 2011 - acpjournals.org
Background: Approximately 80 million Americans have limited health literacy, which puts
them at greater risk for poorer access to care and poorer health outcomes. Purpose: To …

Designing visual aids that promote risk literacy: A systematic review of health research and evidence-based design heuristics

R Garcia-Retamero, ET Cokely - Human factors, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Effective risk communication is essential for informed decision making.
Unfortunately, many people struggle to understand typical risk communications because …

Communicating uncertainty: a narrative review and framework for future research

AL Simpkin, KA Armstrong - Journal of general internal medicine, 2019 - Springer
Discussing the uncertainty associated with a clinical decision is thought to be a critical
element of shared decision-making. Yet, empirical evidence suggests that clinicians rarely …

Numeracy and risk literacy: What have we learned so far?

R Garcia-Retamero, A Sobkow, D Petrova… - The Spanish journal of …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Numerical skills are essential to make informed decisions in our daily life. Unfortunately,
many people lack basic numeracy, which limits their ability to accurately interpret risks (ie …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of health literacy on clinical cancer outcomes: a scoping review

D Samoil, J Kim, C Fox… - Annals of Cancer …, 2021 - ace.amegroups.org
A scoping review was conducted to summarize what is known about the associations
between health literacy and cancer outcomes and to determine which health literacy …

Efficacy of a web-based intelligent tutoring system for communicating genetic risk of breast cancer: A fuzzy-trace theory approach

CR Wolfe, VF Reyna, CL Widmer… - Medical Decision …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Background. Many healthy women consider genetic testing for breast cancer risk, yet BRCA
testing issues are complex. Objective. To determine whether an intelligent tutor, BRCA Gist …

Physicians' attitudes about communicating and managing scientific uncertainty differ by perceived ambiguity aversion of their patients

DB Portnoy, PKJ Han, RA Ferrer, WMP Klein… - Health …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Background Medical interventions are often characterized by substantial scientific
uncertainty regarding their benefits and harms. Physicians must communicate to their …

Is patients' numeracy related to physical and mental health?

R Garcia-Retamero, A Andrade… - Medical Decision …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective. There is compelling evidence showing that health literacy influences health
outcomes. However, there is a dearth of research investigating this issue in the vast …

Numeracy, information seeking, and self-efficacy in managing health: an analysis using the 2007 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS)

Y Chen, TH Feeley - Health communication, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined the unique effects of numeracy on self-efficacy in managing health and
on information-seeking experience, and explored the mediating role of information-seeking …

A clinical decision support tool to predict cancer risk for commonly tested cancer-related germline mutations

D Braun, J Yang, M Griffin, G Parmigiani… - Journal of genetic …, 2018 - Springer
The rapid drop in the cost of DNA sequencing led to the availability of multi-gene panels,
which test 25 or more cancer susceptibility genes for a low cost. Clinicians and genetic …