Odette Wegwarth

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Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Country: Germany

Publications

  1. ncbi [Cancer screening and risk communication]
    Odette Wegwarth
    Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Berlin
    Ther Umsch 70:245-50. 2013
  2. ncbi Do physicians understand cancer screening statistics? A national survey of primary care physicians in the United States
    Odette Wegwarth
    Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Ann Intern Med 156:340-9. 2012
  3. ncbi How do family physicians communicate about cardiovascular risk? Frequencies and determinants of different communication formats
    Stefan Neuner-Jehle
    Institute of General Medicine and Health Services Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    BMC Fam Pract 12:15. 2011
  4. ncbi Deceiving numbers: survival rates and their impact on doctors' risk communication
    Odette Wegwarth
    Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Berlin, Germany
    Med Decis Making 31:386-94. 2011
  5. ncbi Decisions on pharmacogenomic tests in the USA and Germany
    Odette Wegwarth
    Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
    J Eval Clin Pract 17:228-35. 2011
  6. ncbi "There is nothing to worry about": gynecologists' counseling on mammography
    Odette Wegwarth
    Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany
    Patient Educ Couns 84:251-6. 2011
  7. ncbi Smart strategies for doctors and doctors-in-training: heuristics in medicine
    Odette Wegwarth
    Center of Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Med Educ 43:721-8. 2009
  8. ncbi [About the risk to communicate risk]
    O Wegwarth
    Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin
    Ther Umsch 64:687-92. 2007
  9. ncbi [Medical risk assessment--using the example of cancer screening]
    Gerd Gigerenzer
    Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin
    Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes 102:513-9; discussion 606-8. 2008
  10. ncbi Numbers can be worth a thousand pictures: individual differences in understanding graphical and numerical representations of health-related information
    Wolfgang Gaissmaier
    Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Health Psychol 31:286-96. 2012

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Publications11

  1. ncbi [Cancer screening and risk communication]
    Odette Wegwarth
    Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Berlin
    Ther Umsch 70:245-50. 2013
    ..With little effort doctors could taught the simple techniques of risk communication, which would make most of their statistical confusion disappear...
  2. ncbi Do physicians understand cancer screening statistics? A national survey of primary care physicians in the United States
    Odette Wegwarth
    Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Ann Intern Med 156:340-9. 2012
    ..Unlike reduced mortality rates, improved survival rates and increased early detection do not prove that cancer screening tests save lives. Nevertheless, these 2 statistics are often used to promote screening...
  3. ncbi How do family physicians communicate about cardiovascular risk? Frequencies and determinants of different communication formats
    Stefan Neuner-Jehle
    Institute of General Medicine and Health Services Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    BMC Fam Pract 12:15. 2011
    ..g. graphs) compared to verbal qualifiers only. How frequently different communication formats are used in clinical primary care settings is unknown...
  4. ncbi Deceiving numbers: survival rates and their impact on doctors' risk communication
    Odette Wegwarth
    Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Berlin, Germany
    Med Decis Making 31:386-94. 2011
    ..However, due to several biases, the 5-y survival rate is a misleading metric for evaluating a screening's effectiveness. If physicians are not aware of these issues, informed screening counseling cannot take place...
  5. ncbi Decisions on pharmacogenomic tests in the USA and Germany
    Odette Wegwarth
    Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
    J Eval Clin Pract 17:228-35. 2011
    ..This study investigated oncologists' decision making on using pharmacogenomic tests for cancer treatment and examined cross-cultural differences between the USA and Germany...
  6. ncbi "There is nothing to worry about": gynecologists' counseling on mammography
    Odette Wegwarth
    Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany
    Patient Educ Couns 84:251-6. 2011
    ..The present study analyzed the information gynecologists share with a person seeking advice about the benefit and harms of mammography screening...
  7. ncbi Smart strategies for doctors and doctors-in-training: heuristics in medicine
    Odette Wegwarth
    Center of Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Med Educ 43:721-8. 2009
    ..This notion makes heuristics, which use less than complete information, appear as second-best strategies. In this article, we challenge this pessimistic view of heuristics...
  8. ncbi [About the risk to communicate risk]
    O Wegwarth
    Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin
    Ther Umsch 64:687-92. 2007
    ..We will argue in this article that this problem is mainly based on how risks are presented. We will reveal some of the common pitfalls and make suggestions on how to interpret and communicate risks in an easy fashion...
  9. ncbi [Medical risk assessment--using the example of cancer screening]
    Gerd Gigerenzer
    Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin
    Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes 102:513-9; discussion 606-8. 2008
    ..Hence, informed consent is unlikely to take place in everyday practice. Truly informed decision making in medicine requires more evidence and transparency for patients as well as a better statistical training of physicians...
  10. ncbi Numbers can be worth a thousand pictures: individual differences in understanding graphical and numerical representations of health-related information
    Wolfgang Gaissmaier
    Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Health Psychol 31:286-96. 2012
    ..concreteness) affected comprehension and recall of statistical information. Second, we investigated whether graph literacy helps to identify individuals who comprehend graphical representations better than numerical representations...
  11. ncbi [Is one picture worth a thousand words? Risk communication in primary care: advantages and shortcomings of different methods]
    S Neuner-Jehle
    Institut für Hausarztmedizin, Universitatsspital Zurich
    Praxis (Bern 1994) 97:669-76. 2008
    ..Probably not one single mode of representation is the most effective way to convey information about risk, but a combination of methods...