Informed decision making depends on the ability to accurately evaluate and understand information about risk, suggests a new study. A state-of-the-science review of the literature concludes that ...

Despite previous research evidence, this study did not reveal an overall association of health literacy, numeracy, and graph literacy with all-cause hospitalizations or mortality. Objectives: To ...

Graph literacy is an important factor in the design of visual timelines of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) data intended to help prostate cancer survivors understand survivorship trajectories.

Effective healthcare decisions often hinge on a patient’s capacity to understand numerical information and on the clarity with which clinicians convey the likelihood of benefits and harms. Numeracy ...

A University of Oklahoma professor, Edward T. Cokely, shows that informed decision making depends on the ability to accurately evaluate and understand information about risk in a newly published study ...