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Consumer & Patient Education and Shared-Decision Making (679)

Published on in Vol 13, No 3 (2011): Jul-Sep

Risk Estimates From an Online Risk Calculator Are More Believable and Recalled Better When Expressed as Integers

Risk Estimates From an Online Risk Calculator Are More Believable and Recalled Better When Expressed as Integers

Risk Estimates From an Online Risk Calculator Are More Believable and Recalled Better When Expressed as Integers

Authors of this article:

Holly O Witteman1, 2 ;   Brian J Zikmund-Fisher1, 2, 3, 4 Author Orcid Image ;   Erika A Waters5 ;   Teresa Gavaruzzi6, 7 ;   Angela Fagerlin1, 2, 8, 9
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  9. Zikmund-Fisher B, Witteman H, Dickson M, Fuhrel-Forbis A, Kahn V, Exe N, Valerio M, Holtzman L, Scherer L, Fagerlin A. Blocks, Ovals, or People? Icon Type Affects Risk Perceptions and Recall of Pictographs. Medical Decision Making 2014;34(4):443 View
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  12. Gavaruzzi T, Tasso A, Franiuk M, Varesco L, Lotto L. A Psychological Perspective on Factors Predicting Prophylactic Salpingo‐Oophorectomy in a Sample of Italian Women from the General Population. Results from a Hypothetical Study in the Context of BRCA Mutations. Journal of Genetic Counseling 2017;26(5):1144 View
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  14. Jenkins S, Harris A, Lark R. When unlikely outcomes occur: the role of communication format in maintaining communicator credibility. Journal of Risk Research 2019;22(5):537 View
  15. Waters E, Taber J, McQueen A, Housten A, Studts J, Scherer L. Translating Cancer Risk Prediction Models into Personalized Cancer Risk Assessment Tools: Stumbling Blocks and Strategies for Success. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 2020;29(12):2389 View
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Books/Policy Documents

  1. Waters E, Fagerlin A, Zikmund-Fisher B. Handbook of Health Decision Science. View
  2. Zikmund-Fisher B, Mayman G, Fagerlin A. Numerical Reasoning in Judgments and Decision Making about Health. View