Trial reportHealth expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy2017
A new graphical format to communicate treatment effects to patients-A web-based randomized controlled trial.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Information Visualizations to Facilitate HIV-related Patient-provider Communication in New York City (Info Viz: HIV-NYC)
Information Visualizations to Facilitate Clinician-patient Communication in HIV Care (Info Viz: HIV)
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Attrition Within Digital Health Interventions for People With Multiple Sclerosis: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 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 provision for people with multiple sclerosis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Risk communication in a patient decision aid for radiotherapy in breast cancer: How to deal with uncertainty?Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2020Trial
- A pilot test of an infographic-based health communication intervention to enhance patient education among Latino persons with HIV.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2024Article
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- Ensuring Risk Awareness of Vulnerable Patients in the Post-Montgomery Era: Treading a Fine Line.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2020Article
- Developing Infographics to Facilitate HIV-Related Patient-Provider Communication in a Limited-Resource Setting.Applied clinical informatics · 2019Article
- Producing an evidence-based treatment information website in partnership with people affected by multiple sclerosis.Health science reports · 2018Article
- "I Will Respect the Autonomy of My Patient": A Scoping Review of Shared Decision Making in Multiple Sclerosis.International journal of MS careArticle
- How Point (Single-Probability) Tasks Are Affected by Probability Format, Part 1: A Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review.MDM policy & practiceReview
- Scope, Methods, and Overview Findings for the Making Numbers Meaningful Evidence Review of Communicating Probabilities in Health: A Systematic Review.MDM policy & practiceReview
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Abstract
objectivePatients making treatment decisions require understandable evidence-based information. However, evidence on graphical presentation of benefits and side-effects of medical treatments is not conclusive. The study evaluated a new space-saving format, CLARIFIG (clarifying risk figures), aiming to facilitate accuracy of comprehension.
methodsCLARIFIG displays groups of patients with and without treatment benefits as coloured sectors of a proportional bar graph representing in total 100 patients. Supplementary icons indicate the corresponding group's actual condition. The study used an application showing effects of immunotherapy intended to slow disease progression in multiple sclerosis (MS). In a four-arm web-based randomized controlled trial, CLARIFIG was compared to the reference standard, multifigure pictographs (MFP), regarding comprehension (primary outcome) and processing time. Both formats were presented as static and animated versions. People with MS were recruited through the website of the German MS society.
resultsSix hundred and eighty-two patients were randomized and analysed for the primary end point. There were no differences in comprehension rates (MFP
conclusionComprehension of the new format is comparable to MFP. CLARIFIG has the potential to simplify presentation in more complex contexts such as comparison of several treatment options in patient decision aids, but further studies are needed.
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