Utilizing effective risk communication in COVID-19 : highlighting the BRCT / Andy Lazris, Erik Rifkin.
Lazris, Andrew, author.; Rifkin, Erik, author.
2021
RA423.2 .L397 2021eb
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Title
Utilizing effective risk communication in COVID-19 : highlighting the BRCT / Andy Lazris, Erik Rifkin.
Author
Lazris, Andrew, author.
ISBN
9783030745219 (electronic bk.)
303074521X (electronic bk.)
9783030745202 (paperback)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74521-9
Publication Details
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-74521-9 doi
Call Number
RA423.2 .L397 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.101/4
Summary
This book demonstrates how a novel decision-aid, called a Benefit-Risk Characterization Theater (BRCT), can be used to: · Significantly improve accurate communication of health risks from exposure to COVID-19; and · Assess how to best contain and control COVID-19. To date, there have been far-reaching ramifications based on ineffective risk communication when clarifying these health endpoints. A BRCT is a familiar, theatrical chart representation of 1,000 people, with the risks and benefits shown by blackened seats. Since health outcomes can easily be put into such a chart, we show how BRCTs can be used objectively by professionals, the media and lay people. It allows characterization and communication of health benefits and risks of COVID-19 treatment and containment in an undemanding and straightforward way. BRCTs have been successfully used to assist patients in determining: · Their level of acceptable risk of various medical interventions; · If the benefits of intervention outweigh the risks; · Who should make the final decision regarding medical intervention; and · Whether the decision is evidence-based. Written by experts in the field, this book fills in a gap in communication between the medical community, the public and patients. It also provides an area of expertise in communication that is beneficial for medical providers and medical students.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 20, 2021).
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Rifkin, Erik, author.
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Utilizing effective risk communication in COVID-19.
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PART I: Communicating Risk and Benefit in the Medical Community
Patients, Doctors and Decision-making
Absolute and Relative Risks
Communicating health risks to patients and the public
Erik's Recent Experience with Doctors and a Heart Attack
Why not all numbers are the same
Putting BRCTs to use in helping people understand health outcomes
PART II: Videos to Describe the Utility of BRCTs
PART III: COVID-19 Communication
Segue to Part III: BRCTs & COVID-19
How important are the number of cases?
The demographics of COVID-19
Why COVID-19 Should Not Have Prevented Colleges (and Elementary and Secondary Schools) from Opening Last Fall
Nursing homes, the nidus of COVID-19 death
The use of universal masking
Communicating about the impact of surges and quarantines
Communicating about the adverse effects of the cure
How we communicate about COVID-19 in other countries
Other viral pandemics with reference to COVID-19
A Path Forward: BRCTs for COVID-19 and Beyond.

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