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Design features of graphs in health risk communication: a systematic review.
Synthesis in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04102540 (Information Visualizations to Facilitate HIV-related Patient-provider Communication in New York City), which is not on this map. Cited by 177 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Information Visualizations to Facilitate HIV-related Patient-provider Communication in New York City (Info Viz: HIV-NYC)
Who cites it
177 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Enhancing Patient Understanding of Laboratory Test Results: Systematic Review of Presentation Formats and Their Impact on Perception, Decision, Action, and Memory.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- Taxonomies for synthesizing the evidence on communicating numbers in health: Goals, format, and structure.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of different visual presentations on the comprehension of prognostic information: a systematic review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2021Pooled it
- Information visualizations of symptom information for patients and providers: a systematic review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2019Pooled it
- American society of clinical oncology clinical practice guideline update on the use of pharmacologic interventions including tamoxifen, raloxifene, and aromatase inhibition for breast cancer risk reduction.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2009Guideline
- An effective COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy intervention focused on the relative risks of vaccination and infection.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Infographics on risks associated with COVID-19 and the willingness to get the AstraZeneca vaccine: two randomized online experiments.BMC public health · 2024Trial
- Mediational Effects on Motivation to Quit Smoking After Exposure to a Cigarette Pictorial Warning Label Among Young Adults.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2022Trial
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- Numbers, graphs and words - do we really understand the lab test results accessible via the patient portals?Israel journal of health policy research · 2020Trial
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- Visual presentations of efficacy data in direct-to-consumer prescription drug print and television advertisements: A randomized study.Patient education and counseling · 2016Trial
- Effects of providing personalized feedback of child's obesity risk on mothers' food choices using a virtual reality buffet.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2013Trial
- The Personal Patient Profile-Prostate decision support for men with localized prostate cancer: a multi-center randomized trial.Urologic oncology · 2013Trial
- The influence of environmental hazard maps on risk beliefs, emotion, and health-related behavioral intentions.Research in nursing & health · 2013Trial
- Effects of cardiovascular disease risk communication for patients with type 2 diabetes on risk perception in a randomized controlled trial: the @RISK study.Diabetes care · 2012Trial
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117 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
This review describes recent experimental and focus group research on graphics as a method of communication about quantitative health risks. Some of the studies discussed in this review assessed effect of graphs on quantitative reasoning, others assessed effects on behavior or behavioral intentions, and still others assessed viewers' likes and dislikes. Graphical features that improve the accuracy of quantitative reasoning appear to differ from the features most likely to alter behavior or intentions. For example, graphs that make part-to-whole relationships available visually may help people attend to the relationship between the numerator (the number of people affected by a hazard) and the denominator (the entire population at risk), whereas graphs that show only the numerator appear to inflate the perceived risk and may induce risk-averse behavior. Viewers often preferred design features such as visual simplicity and familiarity that were not associated with accurate quantitative judgments. Communicators should not assume that all graphics are more intuitive than text; many of the studies found that patients' interpretations of the graphics were dependent upon expertise or instruction. Potentially useful directions for continuing research include interactions with educational level and numeracy and successful ways to communicate uncertainty about risk.
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