Research associated with Risk communication

Projects:

Impact of a Plain Language Prostate Cancer Decision Aid on Decision Making

Publications:

Helping patients decide: Ten steps to better risk communication
Fagerlin A, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Ubel P. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2011;103(19):.

Physicians recommend different treatments for patients than they would choose for themselves
Ubel PA, Angott A, Zikmund-Fisher BJ. Archives of Internal Medicine 2011;171(7)::630-634.

Testing whether decision aids introduce cognitive biases: Results of a randomized trial
Ubel PA, Smith DM, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Derry HA, McClure JB, Stark AT, Wiese C, Greene SM, Jankovic A, Fagerlin A. Patient Education and Counseling 2010;80:158-63.

Presenting research risks and benefits to parents: Does format matter?
Tait AR, Voepel-Lewis T, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Fagerlin A. Anesthesia and Analgesia 2010;111:718-723.

The effect of various risk/benefit trade-offs on parents' understanding of a pediatric research study
Tait AR, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Fagerlin A, Voepel-Lewis T. Pediatrics 2010;125:1475-1482.

Improving understanding of adjuvant therapy options by using simpler risk graphics
Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Fagerlin A, Ubel PA. Cancer 2008;113(12):3382-3390.

Are they really that happy? Exploring scale recalibration in estimates of well-being
Lacey HP, Fagerlin A, Loewenstein G, Smith DM, Riis J, Ubel PA. Health Psychology 2008;27(6):669-675.

The impact of the format of graphical presentation on health-related knowledge and treatment choices
Hawley ST, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Ubel PA, Jankovic A, Lucas T, Fagerlin A. Patient Education and Counseling 2008;73(3):448-455.

Communicating side effect risks in a tamoxifen prophylaxis decision aid: The debiasing influence of pictographs
Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Ubel PA, Smith DM, Derry HA, McClure JB, Stark AT, Pitsch R, Fagerlin A. Patient Education and Counseling 2008;73(2):209-214.

Alternate methods of framing information about medication side effects: Incremental risk versus total risk of occurrence.
Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Fagerlin A, Roberts TR, Derry HA, Ubel PA. Journal of Health Communication 2008;13(2):107-124.

"If I'm better than average, then I'm ok?": Comparative information influences beliefs about risk and benefits.
Fagerlin A, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Ubel PA. Patient Education and Counseling 2007;69:140-144.

Does labeling prenatal screening test results as negative or positive affect a woman's responses?
Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Fagerlin A, Keeton K, Ubel PA. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2007;197(5):528.e1-528.e6.

Measuring numeracy without a math test: development of the subjective numeracy scale (SNS).
Fagerlin A, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Ubel PA, Jankovic A, Derry HA, Smith DM. Medical Decision Making 2007;27(5):672-680.

Validation of the subjective numeracy scale (SNS): Effects of low numeracy on comprehension of risk communications and utility elicitations.
Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Smith DM, Ubel PA, Fagerlin A. Medical Decision Making 2007;27(5):663-671.

Making numbers matter: Present and future research in risk communication.
Fagerlin A, Ubel PA, Smith DM, Zikmund-Fisher BJ. American Journal of Health Behavior 2007;31(Suppl. 1):S47-S56.

Mortality versus survival graphs: Improving temporal consistency in perceptions of treatment effectiveness.
Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Fagerlin A, Ubel PA. Patient Education and Counseling 2007;66(1):100-107.

Assessing and communicating risks and benefits of gene transfer clinical studies.
Kim SY. Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics 2006;8:384-389.

Do clinicians follow a risk-sensitive model of capacity determination? An experimental video survey.
Kim SY, Caine ED, Swan JG, Appelbaum PS. Psychosomatics 2006;47:325-329.

Can avoidance of complications lead to biased healthcare decisions?
Amsterlaw J, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Fagerlin A, Ubel PA. Judgment and Decision Making 2006;1(1):64-75.

A matter of perspective: choosing for others differs from choosing for yourself in making treatment decisions.
Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Sarr B, Fagerlin A, Ubel PA. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2006;21:618-622.

Individualized survival curves improve satisfaction with cancer risk management: decisions in women with BRCA 1/2 mutations.
Armstrong K, Weber B, Ubel PA, Peters N, Holmes J, Schwartz JS. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2005;23(36):9319-9328.

Cure me even if it kills me: Preferences for invasive cancer treatment.
Fagerlin A, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Ubel PA. Medical Decision Making 2005;25(6):614-619.

What is the risk of sham surgery in Parkinson's disease clinical trials? A review of published reports.
Frank S, Kieburtz K, Holloway RG, Kim SY. Neurology 2005;65:1101-1103.

Reducing the influence of anecdotal reasoning on people's health care decisions: Is a picture worth a thousand statistics?
Fagerlin A, Wang C, Ubel PA. Medical Decision Making 2005;25(4):398-405.

How making a risk estimate can change the feel of that risk: Shifting attitudes toward breast cancer risk in a general public survey.
Fagerlin A, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Ubel PA. Patient Education and Counseling 2005;57(3):294-299.

What's time got to do with it? Inattention to duration in interpretation of survival graphs.
Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Fagerlin A, Ubel PA. Risk Analysis 2005;25(3):589-595.

"Is 28% good or bad?": Evaluability and preferences reversals in health care decisions.
Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Fagerlin A, Ubel PA. Medical Decision Making 2004;24(2):142-148.

Truth in the most optimistic way.
Ubel PA. Annals of Internal Medicine 2001;134:1142-1143.

Press Coverage:

Decision Aids for Health and Finance
February 04, 2010

At-Risk Women Unlikely to Take Tamoxifen
December 04, 2009