Penn Medical Communication Research Institute
@pennmcri
Penn Medical Communication Research Institute oversees research to track the spread of medical information, understand its context & improve health literacy.
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“Obligation to share individual results of clinical trials is stronger when the information is valid, actionable, & significant to health or reproduction.” - #SylvanMCohenRetreat Institute on Aging Penn Medical Communication Research Institute #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch #clinicaltrials #healthcomm
"Misinformation can be harmful beyond the behavioral level - by undermining the credibility of our institutions." - #SylvanMCohenRetreat Institute on Aging Penn Medical Communication Research Institute#medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch
"We can bypass and circumvent misinformation altogether and shift focus by using the right strategies" - #SylvanMCohenRetreat Institute on Aging Penn Medical Communication Research Institute #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch
Impact of the initial belief is 266 to 1 - so a lot harder to correct misinformation once it takes hold - #SylvanMCohenRetreat Institute on Aging Penn Medical Communication Research Institute #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch
When people first form beliefs at the outset, bypassing misinformation is more effective than correcting misinformation – #SylvanMCohenRetreat Institute on Aging Penn Medical Communication Research Institute #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch
Our social decisions are often guided by episodic memories, what we remember about how our interactions transpired with them previously - #SylvanMCohenRetreat Institute on Aging Penn Medical Communication Research Institute #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch
There is a bias toward positive memories and toward maintaining social connections. - #SylvanMCohenRetreat Institute on Aging Penn Medical Communication Research Institute #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch
Adaptive choice depends on associative memory, and associative memory declines with age, which in turn affects older adults' ability to make adaptive choices - #SylvanMCohenRetreat Institute on Aging Penn Medical Communication Research Institute #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch #memory
"Older adults are biased to remember people as generous and less likely to avoid people they remember as non-generous" - #SylvanMCohenRetreat Institute on Aging Penn Medical Communication Research Institute #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch #memory
Therapeutic privilege is defined as the act of withholding information that would inflict harm or suffering upon a patient. But providers should provide justification for such withholding -#SylvanMCohenRetreat Institute on Aging Penn Medical Communication Research Institute #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch
In the medical profession, we need to move from disclosure, return of results, release of records, and sharing results to "communication" of results. - #SylvanMCohenRetreat Institute on Aging Penn Medical Communication Research Institute #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch
Alzheimer's Disease has been used as an umbrella term for different diseases that cause #dementia. But science has discovered many other diseases that cause dementia - #SylvanMCohenRetreat Institute on Aging Penn Medical Communication Research Institute #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch #Alzheimers #nomenclature
#ChatGPT faired better and was more empathetic in responding to patient questions than physicians, according to a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine - - #SylvanMCohenRetreat Institute on Aging Penn Medical Communication Research Institute #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch #artificialintelligence
Large language models propagate race-based medicine - #SylvanMCohenRetreat Institute on Aging Penn Medical Communication Research Institute #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch #medicine #artificialintelligence
Rather than simply anticipating how companies will use large language models, medical providers and researchers have the opportunity to define ethical and appropriate use of LLMs. - #SylvanMCohenRetreat Institute on Aging Penn Medical Communication Research Institute #medcomm #misinformation #agingresearch #medicine
New to our “most viewed this week in JAMA list” “Strategies to Improve Medical Communication” Cappola & Cohen Karthika Cohen Penn Medical Communication Research Institute jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
Join Penn Medical Communication Research Institute on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 from 9am - 2pm for "V.I.D.E.O. for Health Communication: Video to Improve Discovery, Effectiveness, and Outcomes," a half-day symposium on videography and video tools to improve health and medical communication med.upenn.edu/pmcri/video-sy…
In a recent piece for JAMA, Anne Cappola (PennEndocrinology) & Karthika Cohen (Penn Medical Communication Research Institute) discuss evidence-based strategies for advancing effective medical communication tinyurl.com/3my22xsa
Key: Improving Public Understanding of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/improving-publ… by Annenberg School Penn Medical Communication Research Institute "...the percentage of U.S. adults who incorrectly said that VAERS does present vaccine-caused deaths increased significantly..."