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A mixed-methods sequential explanatory design comparison between COVID-19 infection control guidelines’ applicability and their protective value as perceived by Israeli healthcare workers, and healthcare executives’ response

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2020
Background Healthcare workers (HCWs) are on the front line of the COVID-19 outbreak, and their constant exposure to infected patients and contaminated surfaces puts them at risk of acquiring and transmitting the infection.
Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, Ricky Cohen, Nour Abed Elhadi Shahbari, Rana Hijazi   +3 more
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The effects of communicating uncertainty around statistics, on public trust

Royal Society Open Science, 2023
Uncertainty around statistics is inevitable. However, communicators of uncertain statistics, particularly in high-stakes and potentially political circumstances, may be concerned that presenting uncertainties could undermine the perceived trustworthiness
John Kerr, Anne-Marthe van der Bles, Sarah Dryhurst, Claudia R. Schneider, Vivien Chopurian, Alexandra L. J. Freeman, Sander van der Linden   +6 more
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It Takes Two to Tango: How the COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign in Israel Was Framed by the Health Ministry vs. the Television News

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundThe internet has become a major resource in information transfer during COVID-19, and traditional means of communication are digitized and accessible online to the public at large.ObjectivesThis study seeks to examine how Israel's two main ...
Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, Rana Hijazi, Rana Hijazi, Ricky Cohen, Ricky Cohen   +5 more
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The constitution of risk communication in advanced liberal societies [PDF]

, 2008
This article aims to bring to the fore some of the underlying rationales that inform common conceptions of the constitution of risk communication in academic and policy communities.
Austin, Bakir, Beck, Boholm, Bostrom, Bostrom, Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Breakwell, Burkart, Campbell, Chess, Coglianese, Covello, Dean, Demeritt, Edwards, Fiorino, Fiorino, Fischhoff, Fischhoff, Fischhoff, Fischhoff, Flyvbjerg, Foucault, Funtowicz, Garvin, Giddens, Gouldson, Grice, Grice, Gurabardhi, Gurabardhi, Habermas, Habermas, Hall, Holmstrom, Hood, Hood, Horlick-Jones, Horlick-Jones, Interdepartmental Liaison Group on Risk Assessment (ILGRA), ISO, Jaeger, Jasanoff, Joffe, Jovchelovitch, Kasperson, Kelly, Kelly, Klinke, Krauss, Krauss, Leiss, Lemke, Luhmann, Löfstedt, Löfstedt, Löfstedt, McComas, Morgan, Morgan, Murdock, National Research Council, Nelkin, O'Neill, OECD, Palenchar, Pellizzoni, Petts, Pidgeon, Pidgeon, Pidgeon, Pidgeon, Powell, Power, Rayner, Rayner, Renn, Renn, Richardson, Ropeik, Rosa, Rose, Rose, Rossi, Rothstein, Rowe, Schedler, Schinkel, Schlag, Shannon, Slovic, Smith, Stern, Stirling, Sturgis, Sunstein, Taylor-Gooby, U.K. Government Cabinet Office Strategy Unit, U.S. Government National Research Council, Walls, Wardman, World Health Organisation, Wynne, Wynne   +105 more
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Development of strategies for effective communication of food risks and benefits across Europe: Design and conceptual framework of the FoodRisC project [PDF]

, 2011
The FoodRisC project is funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (CORDIS FP7) of the European Commission; Grant agreement no.: 245124. Copyright @ 2011 Barnett et al.BACKGROUND: European consumers are faced with a myriad of food related risk and ...
A Colley, A Fischer, Aine McConnon, C Shannon, D Dosman, D Miller, D Powell, E Vos, I Sioen, I Sioen, J Barnett, J Kasperson, J Wardle, Jean Kennedy, Jon Fletcher, Josephine Wills, Julie Barnett, K Hohl, L Phillips, Luisa Lima, M Vilella-Vila, Margôt Kuttschreuter, Monique Raats, O Renn, O Renn, P Jackson, Patrick Wall, R Foster, R Lofstedt, Richard Shepherd, S Cope, SWC Bowman, T Knowles, U Kjærnes, W Verbeke, Wim Verbeke   +35 more
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Investigating the presentation of uncertainty in an icon array: A randomized trial

PEC Innovation, 2022
Background: Clinicians are often advised to use pictographs to communicate risk, but whether they offer benefits when communicating risk imprecision (e.g., 65%-79%) is unknown.
Gabriel Recchia, Alice C.E. Lawrence, Alexandra L.J. Freeman   +2 more
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Communicating health risks in science publications: time for everyone to take responsibility

BMC Medicine, 2018
Research that is poorly communicated or presented is as potentially damaging as research that is poorly conducted or fraudulent. Recent examples illustrate how the problem often lies with researchers, not press officers or journalists.
Alexandra L. J. Freeman, David J. Spiegelhalter   +1 more
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Light me up: power and expertise in risk communication and policy-making in the e-cigarette health debates [PDF]

, 2018
This paper presents a detailed account of policy-making in a contemporary risk communication arena, where strong power dynamics are at play that have hitherto lacked theoretical analysis and empirical validation.
Adekola, Josephine, Fischbacher-Smith, Denis, Fischbacher-Smith, Moira   +2 more
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Communicating Study Results to Our Patients: Which Way Is Best? [PDF]

, 2008
Before we are able to communicate evidence and evidence results to patients we must first be familiar with the common ways by which results may be presented to our patients. We describe five approaches (relative risk, risk reduction, odds ratio, absolute
Petrisor, BA, Tornetta III, Paul
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Clinical training of undergraduate communication pathology students in the neonatal assessment and neonate-caregiver interaction in South Africa

South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2003
Developing an undergraduate clinical training module in Early Communication Intervention (ECI) that provides sufficient opportunity for students' learning experiences, and that allows contextually relevant and ethically accountable services to clients ...
Alta Kritzinger, Brenda Louw
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