Understanding and communicating risk: Measures of outcome and the magnitude of benefits and harms

Affiliations

• ¹ Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. nrbell@telusplanet.net.
• ² Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary in Alberta.
• ³ Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University and Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute in Montreal, Que.
• ⁴ Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and the Department of Hematology and Oncology for CancerCare Manitoba.
• ⁵ Research Coordinator for the Knowledge Translation Program at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Ont.
• ⁶ Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University and Chair of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.