Communicating information concerning potential medication harms and benefits: What gist do numbers convey?

Thiazolidinediones: do harms outweigh benefits?

Elastic pressure-volume curves: what information do they convey?

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Communicating the uncertainty of harms and benefits of medical interventions.

BACKGROUND There is growing interest in shared medical decision making among patients, physicians, and policy makers. This requires patients to interpret increasing amounts of medical information, much of which is uncertain. Little is known about the optimal approaches to or outcomes of communicating uncertainty about the risks and benefits of treatments. METHODS The authors reviewed the lite...

Communicating information about “what not to do” to consumers

BACKGROUND Americans devote more resources to health care than any other developed country, and yet they have worse health outcomes and less access. This creates a perfect set of opportunities for Consumer Reports, a nonprofit consumer advocacy and multimedia organization known for its focus on individual consumers in markets where significant amounts of misinformation is in play. Consumer Repo...

Do dividends convey information about future earnings?

Yes. We find that dividend changes predict future unexpected earnings changes in each of the next four quarters. These earnings impacts are persistent, leading to higher than expected earnings levels for at least three years after the dividend change. These results are robust to various measures of expected earnings, including analyst forecasts and a flexible function of past earnings and retur...