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Issues and Approaches to Communicating Changes in Risk
In many medical decision contexts, helping patients to understand what their risks are matters less than ensuring that patients grasp how their risks might change based on their behavior. Treatments or behavior change interventions reduce risk, yet may cause side effects which increase other risks.
2006-09-08 00:00
2006-09-08 12:00
2006-09-08 13:30
54 minutes
Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher, PhD
<a href="http://chcr.umich.edu/who_we_are/people/person.2005-04-13.2752743394/person_view">Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher</a> is a Research Investigator in the Center for Behavioral & Decision Sciences in Medicine, with appointments in both the Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence at VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and in the Division of General Medicine at the University of Michigan. His research interests include risk communication, numeracy, the cognitive and affective interpretations of risk information, and more broadly, the role of cognitive biases in medical decision making.<br>
7C09 North Ingalls
http://wocket.chcr.med.umich.edu/chcr/seminars/2006-09-08-zikmund-fisher.htm
CHCR RiskChanges 090806.ppt
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