Numeric, Verbal, and Visual Formats of Conveying Health Risks: Suggested Best Practices and Future Recommendations
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...Clinical evidence is typically in the form of probabilities applicable to populations, not individual patients [41]....
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..., <9th grade level) Eligibility criteria: Included: ≥ 18 years-old On antiretroviral therapy for ≥ 3 months Receiving treatment from 1 of 2 U- Penn HIV clinics Excluded: NR Sampling strategy: Pharmacy records examined for those recruited sequentially on arrival for regular clinic appointments Sample size: 87 Age, median (IQR): <95% adherence: 44 (37-48) ≥95% adherence: 46 (37-53) Gender, %: Females: <95% adherence: 24 ≥95% adherence: 27 Race/Ethnicity, %: <95% adherence: Black: 88 White: 12 ≥95% adherence: Black: 69 White: 31 Income, %: <$10,0000: <95% adherence: 64 ≥95% adherence: 47 Insurance status: NR Education, %: High school <95% adherence: 60 ≥95% adherence: 69 Other characteristics: Median CD4 count (interquartile range) <95% adherence: 303 cells/cm3 (163-537) ≥95% adherence: 363 cells/cm3 (248-470) Undetectable viral load (<50 c/ml), %: <95% adherence: 45 ≥95% adherence: 73 Health literacy/numeracy levels: NR...
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...Neurath’s isotypes have not yet been adapted to health statistics, but various graphic representations are in use (Elmore & Gigerenzer, 2005; Galesic, Garcia-Retamero, & Gigerenzer, in press; Paling, 2003; Kurz-Milcke et al., 2008; Lipkus, 2007; Schapira, Nattinger, & McHorney, 2001)....
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...Neurath’s isotopes have not yet been adapted to health statistics, but various graphic representations are in use (Galesic, Garcia-Retamero, & Gigerenzer, in press; Paling, 2003; Kurz-Milcke et al., 2008; Lipkus, 2007; Schapira, Nattinger, & McHorney, 2001)....
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...Formats used for conveying risk information are critical because individuals often do not have a priori and stable opinions about risk magnitudes; as such, their beliefs and feelings about risk are likely to be influenced by format.(156) Although this review was about communicating probabilistic information because of its central role in most risk communications, it should be noted that probabilistic data may not be the most important dimension of risk people desire or use....
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