Presenting quantitative information about decision outcomes: a risk communication primer for patient decision aid developers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Making evidence-based decisions often requires comparison of two or more options. Research-based evidence may exist which quantifies how likely the outcomes are for each option. Understanding these numeric estimates improves patients' risk perception and leads to better informed decision making. This paper summarises current "best practices" in communication of evidence-based numeric outcomes for developers of patient decision aids (PtDAs) and other health communication tools.

Method

An expert consensus group of fourteen researchers from North America, Europe, and Australasia identified eleven main issues in risk communication. Two experts for each issue wrote a "state of the art" summary of best evidence, drawing on the PtDA, health, psychological, and broader sc

SUBMITTER: Trevena LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4045391 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature