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ArticleBMJ evidence-based medicine2026

Accurate is not enough: select formats for communicating probabilities to achieve specific outcomes.

Brian J Zikmund-Fisher, Jessica S Ancker

Abstract read
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Article in BMJ evidence-based medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Brian J Zikmund-FisherHealth Behavior and Health Equity, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA bzikmund@umich.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1637-4176
Jessica S AnckerVanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Funding

Making Numbers Meaningful: Promoting Evidence-based Communication of Numbers in HealthR01LM012964 · NLM · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI ANCKER, JESSICA S. · 2018 to 2021
$1.4M
NLM NIH HHS R01 LM012964
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Clinical Decision-MakingEvidence-Based PracticeQuality of Health Care

Identifiers

PMID40592561
PMCPMC12320222

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