medical decision making

Rapid-antigen testing for SARS-CoV-2 in Germany: Citizens’ selective granting of freedoms for negatively tested, vaccinated, recovered, and other citizens

Pandemic management of SARS-CoV-2 has involved temporary freedom restrictions to curb the spread of infection. In this study, citizens are asked for whom they would grant freedoms and it is examined how their granting is influenced by risk …

The Likelihood Difference Heuristic and binary test selection given situation-specific utilities

Consider the task of selecting a medical test to determine whether a patient has a particular disease.Normatively, this requires taking into account (i) the prior probability of the disease, (ii) the likelihood|for each available test|of …

Communicating relative risk changes with baseline risk: presentation format and numeracy matter

_Background_: Treatment benefits and harms are often communicated as relative risk reductions and increases, which are frequently misunderstood by doctors and patients. One suggestion for improving understanding of such risk information is to also …