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Review
. 2002 Apr 6;324(7341):827-30.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7341.827.

Explaining risks: turning numerical data into meaningful pictures

Adrian Edwards  1 , Glyn Elwyn, Al Mulley
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Review

Explaining risks: turning numerical data into meaningful pictures

Adrian Edwards et al. BMJ. .
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Figure 1
Risk language proposal, derived from Paling
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Figure 2
Portrayal of risks and benefits of treatment with antibiotics for otitis media designed with Visual Rx, a program that calculates numbers needed to treat from the pooled results of a meta-analysis and produce a graphical display of the result
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Figure 3
Portrayal of the risks and benefits of hormone replacement taken for five years
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