Effectively designed data visualizations allow viewers to use their powerful visual systems to
understand patterns in data across science, education, health, and public policy. But …

Background Effective risk communication is essential for informed decision making.
Unfortunately, many people struggle to understand typical risk communications because …

Well-designed visual displays have the power to convey health messages in clear, effective
ways to non-experts, including journalists, patients and policymakers. Poorly designed …

Background Decision aid developers have to convey complex task-specific numeric
information in a way that minimizes bias and promotes understanding of the options …

While uncertainty is present in most data analysis pipelines, reasoning with uncertainty is
challenging for novices and experts alike. Fortunately, researchers are making significant …

Given the impact of health literacy (HL) on patients' outcomes, limited health literacy is a
major barrier to improve cancer care globally. HL refers to the degree in which an individual …

Objectives Patients increasingly use patient-reported outcomes (PROs) to self-monitor their
health status. Visualizing PROs longitudinally (over time) could help patients interpret and …

Introduction all medical treatments have potential harms as well as benefits, and it is vital
that everyone has a good understanding of what these might be, how dramatic they might be …

In their research articles, scholars often use 2× 2 tables or tree diagrams including natural
frequencies in order to illustrate Bayesian reasoning situations to their peers. Interestingly …

Introduction Informed decision making has been highlighted as an important aspect of lung
cancer screening programs. This study seeks to assess the efficacy of a web-based patient …