risk communication

Pandemic management can involve restricting people's freedoms to curb the spread of infection, as done with introducing large-scale rapid antigen testing for SARS-CoV-2 in 2021. But do people understand what a test result means? Because testing has …

Any medical innovation must first prove its benefits with reliable evidence from clinical trials. Evidence is commonly expressed using two metrics, summarizing treatment benefits based on either absolute risk reductions (ARRs) or relative risk …

_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 …