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

We review the growing literature on health numeracy, the ability to understand and use
numerical information, and its relation to cognition, health behaviors, and medical outcomes …

Many doctors, patients, journalists, and politicians alike do not understand what health
statistics mean or draw wrong conclusions without noticing. Collective statistical illiteracy …

Research has demonstrated that individual differences in numeracy may have important
consequences for decision making. In the present paper, we develop a shorter …

Statistical illiteracy can have an enormously negative impact on decision making. This
volume of collected papers brings together applied and theoretical research on risks and …

Self-reported measures of antiretroviral adherence vary greatly in recall time periods and
response tasks. To determine which time frame is most accurate, we compared 3-, 7-day …

Background Low numeracy is pervasive and constrains informed patient choice, reduces
medication compliance, limits access to treatments, impairs risk communication, and affects …

The purpose of this review is to organize various published conceptions of health numeracy
and to discuss how health numeracy contributes to the productive use of quantitative …

Background. Patients' values are fundamental to decision models, cost-effectiveness
analyses, and pharmacoeconomic analyses. The standard methods used to assess how …

OBJECTIVE: To measure the effects of a summary-of-findings (SoF) table on user
satisfaction, understanding, and time spent finding key results in a Cochrane review. STUDY …