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Understanding the frequency and severity of side effects: Linguistic, numeric, and visual representations

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Hubal, R; Day, RS
Published in: AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report
August 21, 2006

Side effects for prescription drugs vary in their severity and frequency of occurrence. Understanding the status of a given drug on both these dimensions is important for physicians during the prescribing process, for regulators and industry in the approval and safety review process, and for patients in the compliance process. There is a wide variety of terms used to describe severity and frequency information in both professional information sources (such as the approved label) and patient sources (such as pharmacy leaflets). The experiments reported here examine how people understand these terms, whether laypersons interpret them in the same ways as professionals, and the consequences of providing terms in alternative linguistic, numeric, and visual forms. This work holds implications for risk communication for healthcare providers and patients, the needs of low-literacy and low-numeracy audiences, and health literacy in general. Copyright © 2006, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.

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AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report

Publication Date

August 21, 2006

Volume

SS-06-01

Start / End Page

69 / 75
 

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Hubal, R., & Day, R. S. (2006). Understanding the frequency and severity of side effects: Linguistic, numeric, and visual representations. AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report, SS-06-01, 69–75.
Hubal, R., and R. S. Day. “Understanding the frequency and severity of side effects: Linguistic, numeric, and visual representations.” AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report SS-06-01 (August 21, 2006): 69–75.
Hubal R, Day RS. Understanding the frequency and severity of side effects: Linguistic, numeric, and visual representations. AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report. 2006 Aug 21;SS-06-01:69–75.
Hubal, R., and R. S. Day. “Understanding the frequency and severity of side effects: Linguistic, numeric, and visual representations.” AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report, vol. SS-06-01, Aug. 2006, pp. 69–75.
Hubal R, Day RS. Understanding the frequency and severity of side effects: Linguistic, numeric, and visual representations. AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report. 2006 Aug 21;SS-06-01:69–75.

Published In

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report

Publication Date

August 21, 2006

Volume

SS-06-01

Start / End Page

69 / 75