title: Risk and experience: effects of experiential learning and patient characteristics in interpretation of dynamic risk graphics.
abstract: Risks can be explained to patients in narratives, numbers, or graphs. All these methods depend upon description. However, decisions from description differ systematically from decisions about risks that are experienced through activities such as drawing cards from a deck. We have developed a dynamic graphic interface that provides a virtual experience of event probabilities, with potential applications in patient education and decision support.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Jessica S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Ancker
authors.forename: Yalini
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Senathirajah
authors.forename: Elke U
authors.initials: EU
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kukafka
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012306:Risk; D014584:User-Computer Interface