Fighting misinformation in seismology: Expert opinion on earthquake facts vs. fiction

S Dryhurst, F Mulder, I Dallo, JR Kerr… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Misinformation carries the potential for immense damage to public understanding of science
and for evidence-based decision making at an individual and policy level. Our research …

Visualising SARS-CoV-2 transmission routes and mitigations

H Rutter, S Parker, W Stahl-Timmins, C Noakes… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Visualising SARS-CoV-2 transmission routes and mitigations Page 1 Visualising SARS-CoV-2
transmission routes and mitigations Harry Rutter and colleagues reflect on the challenges of …

Communication of Statistics and Evidence in Times of Crisis

CR Schneider, JR Kerr, S Dryhurst… - Annual review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
This review provides an overview of concepts relating to the communication of statistical and
empirical evidence in times of crisis, with a special focus on COVID-19. In it, we consider …

Consent in organ transplantation: putting legal obligations and guidelines into practice

F Raza, J Neuberger - BMC medical ethics, 2022 - Springer
Consent in medical practice is a process riddled with layers of complexities. To some extent,
this is inevitable given that different medical conditions raise different sets of issues for …

Patients' and physicians' beliefs and attitudes towards integrating personalized risk estimates into patient education about left ventricular assist device therapy

KM Kostick-Quenet, B Lang, N Dorfman, J Estep… - Patient Education and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Personalized risk (PR) estimates may enhance clinical decision making and
risk communication by providing individualized estimates of patient outcomes. We explored …

The influence of COVID-19 mortality rate formats on emotional reactions, risk perception, and self-protective behavioral intentions

G Priolo, M Vacondio, S Dickert, N Bonini - Journal of risk research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We investigated whether different Mortality Rate Formats used to express the same objective
probability affected people's Emotional reactions, Risk perception, and protective behavioral …

The effect of the 1‐in‐X numerical format on choices

S Pighin, A Bogani, GBC Davalos… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The 1‐in‐X numerical format (eg, 1 in 200) has been found to increase subjective probability
evaluations and behavioral intentions in hypothetical scenarios compared with the N‐in‐NX …

Associations between COVID-19 risk perceptions and mental health, wellbeing, and risk behaviours

ML Dyer, HM Sallis, JN Khouja, S Dryhurst… - Journal of risk …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Mental health has worsened, and substance use has increased for some people during the
coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Some cross-sectional studies suggest that higher …