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A Simple Tool for Communicating the Benefits and Harms of Health Interventions: A Guide for Creating a Fact Box
One of the major hurdles to promoting informed decision making in health is the continued use of poor risk presentation formats. This article offers a guide to develop a Fact Box, a simple decision tool to present data about the benefits and harms of treatments that has been demonstrated to improve...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6125040/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30288405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2381468316665365 |
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author | McDowell, Michelle Rebitschek, Felix G. Gigerenzer, Gerd Wegwarth, Odette |
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description | One of the major hurdles to promoting informed decision making in health is the continued use of poor risk presentation formats. This article offers a guide to develop a Fact Box, a simple decision tool to present data about the benefits and harms of treatments that has been demonstrated to improve understanding of health risks, an important part of risk literacy. The article offers guidance about how to determine the evidence basis for a health topic, select outcomes to report, extract and present numbers or outcomes, and design the layout. The guide also addresses potential challenges for summarizing evidence and provides alternatives for addressing issues related to missing, insufficient, imprecise, or conflicting evidence and for dealing with issues related to statistical and clinical significance. The guide concludes with details on how to document the development of the Fact Box for the purpose of transparency and reproducibility. Fact Boxes are an efficient tool to promote risk literacy and should be available in every physician’s office. |
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spelling | pubmed-61250402018-10-04 A Simple Tool for Communicating the Benefits and Harms of Health Interventions: A Guide for Creating a Fact Box McDowell, Michelle Rebitschek, Felix G. Gigerenzer, Gerd Wegwarth, Odette MDM Policy Pract Tutorial One of the major hurdles to promoting informed decision making in health is the continued use of poor risk presentation formats. This article offers a guide to develop a Fact Box, a simple decision tool to present data about the benefits and harms of treatments that has been demonstrated to improve understanding of health risks, an important part of risk literacy. The article offers guidance about how to determine the evidence basis for a health topic, select outcomes to report, extract and present numbers or outcomes, and design the layout. The guide also addresses potential challenges for summarizing evidence and provides alternatives for addressing issues related to missing, insufficient, imprecise, or conflicting evidence and for dealing with issues related to statistical and clinical significance. The guide concludes with details on how to document the development of the Fact Box for the purpose of transparency and reproducibility. Fact Boxes are an efficient tool to promote risk literacy and should be available in every physician’s office. SAGE Publications 2016-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6125040/ /pubmed/30288405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2381468316665365 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Tutorial McDowell, Michelle Rebitschek, Felix G. Gigerenzer, Gerd Wegwarth, Odette A Simple Tool for Communicating the Benefits and Harms of Health Interventions: A Guide for Creating a Fact Box |
title | A Simple Tool for Communicating the Benefits and Harms of Health
Interventions: A Guide for Creating a Fact Box |
title_full | A Simple Tool for Communicating the Benefits and Harms of Health
Interventions: A Guide for Creating a Fact Box |
title_fullStr | A Simple Tool for Communicating the Benefits and Harms of Health
Interventions: A Guide for Creating a Fact Box |
title_full_unstemmed | A Simple Tool for Communicating the Benefits and Harms of Health
Interventions: A Guide for Creating a Fact Box |
title_short | A Simple Tool for Communicating the Benefits and Harms of Health
Interventions: A Guide for Creating a Fact Box |
title_sort | simple tool for communicating the benefits and harms of health
interventions: a guide for creating a fact box |
topic | Tutorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6125040/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30288405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2381468316665365 |
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