Brian Zikmund-Fisher
Professor @ UMich. Research making health & risk data communications intuitively meaningful, narratives, improv. Editor-in-Chief of Medical Decision Making & MDM Policy & Practice. Opinions my own.
- Almost a decade ago, I wrote a piece for TheConversation.com on the (manageable) risks of raw cookie dough (theconversation.com/why-public-h...). It went viral and has something like 400k views. But, the world of dough has changed, so it seemed like a good time for a revision. Enjoy!
- Very proud of authoring this JAMA piece summarizing the most evidence based recommendations we have about communicating probabilities and test results to patients. Now to hope that people believe that using these best practices matters!
- Clinicians can enhance patient understanding by using numerical data instead of verbal probabilities, consistent denominators, absolute risk comparisons, and clear context for unfamiliar data types. ja.ma/4pAC3zi
- The Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review papers are now available! Review of 316 papers on communicating health-related probabilities to the public. 1,119 findings. Methods / scoping paper, 6 evidence summary papers, 5 editorials. All open access. journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
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