Publications of Odette Wegwarth

Wegwarth, O., Kurzenhäuser-Carstens, S., & Gigerenzer, G. (2014). Overcoming the knowledge-behavior gap: The effect of evidence-based HPV vaccination leaflets on understanding, intention, and actual vaccination decision. Vaccine, 32(12), 1388–1393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.12.038

Gigerenzer, G., & Wegwarth, O. (2013). Five year survival rates can mislead. BMJ, 346, Article f548. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f548

Wegwarth, O. (2013). Statistical illiteracy in residents: What they do not learn today will hurt their patients tomorrow. Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 5(2), 340–341. https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-13-00084.1

Wegwarth, O., & Gigerenzer, G. (2013). Overdiagnosis and overtreatment: Evaluation of what physicians tell patients about screening harms. JAMA Internal Medicine, 173(22), 2086–2087. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.10363

Durand, M.-A., Wegwarth, O., Boivin, J., & Elwyn, G. (2012). Design and usability of heuristic-based deliberation tools for women facing amniocentesis. Health Expectations, 15(1), 32–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1369-7625.2010.00651.x

Gaissmaier, W., Wegwarth, O., Skopec, D., Müller, A.-S., Broschinski, S., & Politi, M. C. (2012). Numbers can be worth a thousand pictures: Individual differences in understanding graphical and numerical representations of health-related information. Health Psychology, 31(3), 286–296. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024850

Wegwarth, O., Schwartz, L. M., Woloshin, S., Gaissmaier, W., & Gigerenzer, G. (2012). Do physicians understand cancer screening statistics? A national survey of primary care physicians in the United States. Annals of Internal Medicine, 156(5), 340–349. https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-156-5-201203060-00005

Neuner-Jehle, S., Senn, O., Wegwarth, O., Rosemann, T., & Steurer, J. (2011). How do family physicians communicate about cardiovascular risk? Frequencies and determinants of different communication formats. BMC Family Practice, 12, Article 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-12-15

Wegwarth, O., Day, R. W., & Gigerenzer, G. (2011). Decisions on pharmacogenomic tests in the USA and Germany. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 17(2), 228–235. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01426.x

Wegwarth, O., Gaissmaier, W., & Gigerenzer, G. (2011). Deceiving numbers: Survival rates and their impact on doctors' risk communication. Medical Decision Making, 31(3), 386–394. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989X10391469