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Scope, Methods, and Overview Findings for the Making Numbers Meaningful Evidence Review of Communicating Probabilities in Health: A Systematic Review.
Review in MDM policy & practice. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
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Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Accurate is not enough: select formats for communicating probabilities to achieve specific outcomes.BMJ evidence-based medicine · 2026Article
- Evidence on Methods for Communicating Health-Related Probabilities: Comparing the Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review to the 2021 IPDAS Evidence Paper Recommendations.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2025Article
- How to Report Research on the Communication of Health-Related Numbers: The Research on Communicating Numbers (ReCoN) Guidelines.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2025Article
- Reflecting on the Universal Meaning of Numbers in Health and Risk Communication.MDM policy & practiceArticle
- Learning from the Past to Guide the Future of Research on Risk Communication.MDM policy & practiceArticle
- How Point (Single-Probability) Tasks Are Affected by Probability Format, Part 1: A Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review.MDM policy & practiceReview
- Tolerating Uncertainty About the Communication of Risk.MDM policy & practiceArticle
- How to Make Sense of the Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review.MDM policy & practiceArticle
- How Time-Trend Tasks Are Affected by Probability Format: A Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review.MDM policy & practiceReview
- How Point (Single-Probability) Tasks Are Affected by Probability Format, Part 2: A Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review.MDM policy & practiceReview
- How Difference Tasks Are Affected by Probability Format, Part 2: A Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review.MDM policy & practiceReview
- How Difference Tasks Are Affected by Probability Format, Part 1: A Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review.MDM policy & practiceReview
- How Synthesis Tasks Are Affected by Probability Format: A Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review.MDM policy & practiceReview
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
7 authors.
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Abstract
Highlights: The Making Numbers Meaningful project conducted a comprehensive systematic review of experimental and quasi-experimental research that compared 2 or more formats for presenting quantitative health information to patients or other lay audiences. The current article focuses on probability information.Based on a conceptual taxonomy, we reviewed studies based on the cognitive tasks required of participants, assessing 14 distinct possible outcomes.Our review identified 316 articles involving probability communications that generated 1,119 distinct research findings, each of which was reviewed by multiple experts for credibility.The overall pattern of findings highlights which probability communication questions have been well researched and which have not. For example, there has been far more research on communicating single probabilities than on communicating more complex information such as trends over time, and there has been a large amount of research on the effect of communication approaches on behavioral intentions but relatively little on behaviors.
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