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Informed Medical Decisions Foundation Funded Research
View all results of this resource type.Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Decision Boxes in Primary Healthcare Interdisciplinary Teams to Facilitate Shared Decision Making
Our primary aim is to explore the barriers and facilitators influencing primary healthcare interdisciplinary teams' use of decision boxes in clinical practice. Continue reading
Cutting Through the Misguided Conventional Wisdom about Healthcare: How Can We Help the Public Believe Medical Evidence
This study will investigate public perceptions of breast, prostate and colorectal cancer screening by contrasting popular media messages with evidence based information. Continue reading
Development and Feasibility Testing of a "Consumer Questions" Program to Increase Health Literacy and Empower Consumers to Participate in Decisions about their Health
To explore feasibility and implementation issues of a program to train consumers to use the consumer questions. Continue reading
Enhancing Comprehension of Graphically Presented Medical Data: Designs to Help People with Low Graph Literacy
In order to make informed medical decisions, patients need to understand information about risks, benefits and drawbacks of different treatments. However, research on health literacy and medical decision making has shown that patients in different cultures have severe problems grasping a host of numerical concepts that are prerequisites for understanding health-relevant statistical information. Graphical displays -- including line plots, bar charts or icon arrays -- often facilitate the communication of numerical information, and can help overcome some of these difficulties. Continue reading
