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  1. Warning label messages about the cancer risk associated with alcohol: Effects of causal language

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, November 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  2. Uncertainty tolerance in healthcare: towards a normative conception

    Article • Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul K Han

  3. Educating healthcare students in the Sustainable Development Goals: from translational science to translational humanities

    Article • Medical Humanities, June 2025, BMJ

    Dr Paul K Han

  4. On the Nose: Reducing Nasopharyngeal Cancer–Related Mortality Using Risk-Based Epstein-Barr Virus Serology Screening

    Article • Journal of Clinical Oncology, January 2025, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

    Dr Paul K Han

  5. Tolerating Uncertainty About the Communication of Risk

    Article • MDM Policy & Practice, January 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul K Han

  6. Understanding Cancer Treatment Decision Making Among Cancer Survivors: Weighing Cancer Recurrence Versus Cardiotoxicity

    Article • Psycho-Oncology, January 2025, Wiley

    Dr Paul K Han

  7. Cancer prognosis information-seeking among survivors and caregivers: findings from the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service

    Article • Supportive Care in Cancer, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul K Han

  8. Socioeconomic and urban-rural disparities in genome-matched treatment receipt and survival after genomic tumor testing

    Article • JNCI Cancer Spectrum, September 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Cara Frankenfeld, Dr Paul K Han

  9. Primary care physicians and laypersons’ perceptions of multicancer detection clinical trial designs

    Article • JNCI Cancer Spectrum, September 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Paul K Han

  10. Patient–Provider Discussions About Alcohol Use by Cancer History

    Article • American Journal of Preventive Medicine, July 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  11. Reply to M. Jefford et al

    Article • Journal of Clinical Oncology, June 2024, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

    Dr Paul K Han

  12. Cancer screening with multicancer detection tests: A translational science review

    Article • CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, March 2024, Wiley

    Dr Paul K Han

  13. The Use of Social Media to Express and Manage Medical Uncertainty in Dyskeratosis Congenita: Content Analysis

    Article • JMIR Infodemiology, January 2024, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul K Han

  14. Myths and Presumptions About Cancer Survivorship

    Article • Journal of Clinical Oncology, January 2024, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

    Dr Paul K Han

  15. Uncertainty in healthcare

    Article • October 2023, John Benjamins

    Dr Paul K Han

  16. Effects of Prosocial and Hope-Promoting Communication Strategies on COVID-19 Worry and Intentions for Risk-Reducing Behaviors and Vaccination: Experimental Study

    Article • JMIR Formative Research, August 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul K Han

  17. Prevalence and Predictors of Physician-Patient Discordance in Prognostic Perceptions in Advanced Cancer

    Article • The Oncologist, May 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Paul K Han

  18. Urban-Rural and Socioeconomic Differences in Patient Knowledge and Perceptions of Genomic Tumor Testing

    Article • JCO Precision Oncology, March 2023, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

    Dr Paul K Han

  19. The Use of Social Media to Express and Manage Medical Uncertainty in Dyskeratosis Congenita: Content Analysis (Preprint)

    Article • February 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul K Han

  20. Study design considerations for trials to evaluate multicancer early detection assays for clinical utility

    Article • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, December 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Paul K Han

  21. Effects of Prosocial and Hope-Promoting Communication Strategies on COVID-19 Worry and Intentions for Risk-Reducing Behaviors and Vaccination: Experimental Study (Preprint)

    Article • August 2022, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul K Han

  22. Epistemic Beliefs: Relationship to Future Expectancies and Quality of Life in Cancer Patients

    Article • Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, April 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  23. Behavioral Research in Cancer Prevention and Control: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities

    Article • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, July 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Paul K Han

  24. Communicating Scientific Uncertainty About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Online Experimental Study of an Uncertainty-Normalizing Strategy

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, April 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul K Han

  25. Current Best Practice for Presenting Probabilities in Patient Decision Aids: Fundamental Principles

    Article • Medical Decision Making, March 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul K Han

  26. Current Challenges When Using Numbers in Patient Decision Aids: Advanced Concepts

    Article • Medical Decision Making, March 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul K Han

  27. How Physicians Manage Medical Uncertainty: A Qualitative Study and Conceptual Taxonomy

    Article • Medical Decision Making, February 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul K Han

  28. Communicating Scientific Uncertainty About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Online Experimental Study of an Uncertainty-Normalizing Strategy (Preprint)

    Article • February 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul K Han

  29. Pilot Study of an Encounter Decision Aid for Lung Cancer Screening

    Article • Journal of Cancer Education, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul K Han

  30. The influence of uncertainty and uncertainty tolerance on attitudes and self-efficacy about genomic tumor testing

    Article • Psychology Health & Medicine, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul K Han

  31. Effects of Personalized Risk Information on Patients Referred for Lung Cancer Screening with Low-Dose CT

    Article • Medical Decision Making, October 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul K Han

  32. Uncertainty in health care: Towards a more systematic program of research

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  33. Effects of communication about uncertainty and oncologist gender on the physician-patient relationship

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  34. Communicating uncertainty in cancer prognosis: A review of web-based prognostic tools

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  35. Tolerating uncertainty about conceptual models of uncertainty in health care

    Article • Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, February 2019, Wiley

    Dr Paul K Han

  36. Tolerance of uncertainty: A systematic review of health and healthcare-related outcomes

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  37. Communication of Scientific Uncertainty about a Novel Pandemic Health Threat: Ambiguity Aversion and Its Mechanisms

    Article • Journal of Health Communication, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul K Han

  38. Tolerance of uncertainty: Conceptual analysis, integrative model, and implications for healthcare

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, May 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  39. Coping with arthritis: what you do isn’t associated with how much information you want

    Article • The Open Rheumatology Journal, September 2016, Bentham Science Publishers

    Lorie Geryk, Dr Paul K Han

  40. Factors Affecting Physicians’ Intentions to Communicate Personalized Prognostic Information to Cancer Patients at the End of Life

    Article • Medical Decision Making, August 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul K Han

  41. Determinants of cancer screening in Asian-Americans

    Article • Cancer Causes & Control, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul K Han

  42. Determinants of Prostate Specific Antigen Screening among Black Men in the United States in the Contemporary Era

    Article • The Journal of Urology, April 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Paul K Han

  43. Improving Bayesian Reasoning: The Effects of Phrasing, Visualization, and Spatial Ability

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, January 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul K Han

  44. Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Health Decisions

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul K Han

  45. Conflicting health information: a critical research need

    Article • Health Expectations, December 2015, Wiley

    Dr Paul K Han

  46. Unknown Risks

    Article • Medical Decision Making, October 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul K Han

  47. Effects of personalized colorectal cancer risk information on laypersons’ interest in colorectal cancer screening: The importance of individual differences

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  48. Health literacy-listening skill and patient questions following cancer prevention and screening discussions

    Article • Health Expectations, July 2015, Wiley

    DONALD Rubin, Dr Paul K Han

  49. Delivering a decision support intervention about PSA screening to patients outside of clinical encounters is ineffective in promoting informed decision-making

    Article • Evidence-Based Medicine, June 2015, BMJ

    Dr Paul K Han

  50. Health Messaging to Individuals Who Perceive Ambiguity in Health Communications: The Promise of Self-Affirmation

    Article • Journal of Health Communication, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul K Han

  51. Decision making and cancer.

    Article • American Psychologist, January 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Paul K Han

  52. Temporal changes in tolerance of uncertainty among medical students: insights from an exploratory study

    Article • Medical Education Online, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul K Han

  53. Individual Differences in Aversion to Ambiguity Regarding Medical Tests and Treatments: Association with Cancer Screening Cognitions

    Article • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, December 2014, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

    Dr Paul K Han

  54. Development of clinical models for predicting erectile function after localized prostate cancer treatment

    Article • International Journal of Urology, July 2014, Wiley

    Dr Paul K Han

  55. Physicians' perceptions of the value of prognostic models: the benefits and risks of prognostic confidence

    Article • Health Expectations, May 2014, Wiley

    Dr Paul K Han

  56. Perceived Ambiguity, Fatalism, and Believing Cancer Is More Prevalent Than Heart Disease

    Article • American Journal of Preventive Medicine, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  57. Health Literacy and Pap Testing in Insured Women

    Article • Journal of Cancer Education, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul K Han

  58. Development and evaluation of a risk communication curriculum for medical students

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  59. The Association Between Health Literacy and Cancer-Related Attitudes, Behaviors, and Knowledge

    Article • Journal of Health Communication, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul K Han

  60. The value of personalised risk information: a qualitative study of the perceptions of patients with prostate cancer

    Article • BMJ Open, September 2013, BMJ

    Dr Paul K Han

  61. National Evidence on the Use of Shared Decision Making in Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening

    Article • The Annals of Family Medicine, July 2013, Annals of Family Medicine

    Dr Paul K Han

  62. Sources of Uncertainty and Their Association with Medical Decision Making: Exploring Mechanisms in Fanconi Anemia

    Article • Annals of Behavioral Medicine, May 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Paul K Han

  63. The use of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in Fanconi anaemia patients: a survey of decision making among families in the US and Canada

    Article • Health Expectations, April 2013, Wiley

    Dr Paul K Han

  64. Physicians’ Beliefs About Breast Cancer Surveillance Testing are Consistent With Test Overuse

    Article • Medical Care, April 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Paul K Han

  65. Exploring Objective and Subjective Numeracy at a Population Level: Findings From the 2007 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS)

    Article • Journal of Health Communication, February 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul K Han

  66. Presenting quantitative information about decision outcomes: a risk communication primer for patient decision aid developers

    Article • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul K Han

  67. Conceptual, Methodological, and Ethical Problems in Communicating Uncertainty in Clinical Evidence

    Article • Medical Care Research and Review, November 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul K Han

  68. The Cancer Message Literacy Tests: Psychometric analyses and validity studies

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, October 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  69. Corrigendum to “Disparities in hospice care among older women dying with ovarian cancer” [Gynecologic Oncology 125 (2012) 14–18]

    Article • Gynecologic Oncology, September 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  70. Health literacy and cancer prevention: Two new instruments to assess comprehension

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, July 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  71. Disparities in hospice care among older women dying with ovarian cancer

    Article • Gynecologic Oncology, April 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  72. Development of a Prognostic Model for Six-Month Mortality in Older Adults With Declining Health

    Article • Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Ron D. Hays, Dr Paul K Han

  73. Lung Cancer Screening Practices of Primary Care Physicians: Results From a National Survey

    Article • The Annals of Family Medicine, March 2012, Annals of Family Medicine

    Dr Paul K Han

  74. Representing randomness in the communication of individualized cancer risk estimates: Effects on cancer risk perceptions, worry, and subjective uncertainty about risk

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  75. Interdisciplinary Research on Patient-Provider Communication: A Cross-Method Comparison

    Article • Communication & Medicine, November 2011, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Dr Paul K Han

  76. Varieties of Uncertainty in Health Care: A Conceptual Taxonomy

    Article • Medical Decision Making, November 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul K Han

  77. Relationships among health perceptions vary depending on stage of readiness for colorectal cancer screening.

    Article • Health Psychology, September 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Paul K Han

  78. Physicians’ attitudes about communicating and managing scientific uncertainty differ by perceived ambiguity aversion of their patients

    Article • Health Expectations, August 2011, Wiley

    Dr Paul K Han

  79. Differences Between Primary Care Physicians’ and Oncologists’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Regarding the Care of Cancer Survivors

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul K Han

  80. The goals of communicating bad news in health care: do physicians and patients agree?

    Article • Health Expectations, July 2011, Wiley

    Dr Paul K Han

  81. Multiple Clinical Practice Guidelines for Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening

    Article • Medical Care, February 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Paul K Han

  82. Varieties of Uncertainty in Health Care: A Conceptual Taxonomy

    Article • Medical Decision Making, January 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul K Han

  83. Breast cancer screening beliefs, recommendations and practices

    Article • Cancer, January 2011, Wiley

    Dr Paul K Han

  84. U.S. Primary Care Physicians' Lung Cancer Screening Beliefs and Recommendations

    Article • American Journal of Preventive Medicine, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  85. Media Messages About Cancer: What Do People Understand?

    Article • Journal of Health Communication, August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul K Han

  86. Communication of Uncertainty Regarding Individualized Cancer Risk Estimates

    Article • Medical Decision Making, July 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul K Han

  87. Women's experiences with genomic testing for breast cancer recurrence risk

    Article • Cancer, April 2010, Wiley

    Dr Paul K Han

  88. The Coordination of Primary and Oncology Specialty Care at the End of Life

    Article • JNCI Monographs, April 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Paul K Han

  89. Perceived Risk, Trust and Health-related Quality of Life Among Cancer Survivors

    Article • Annals of Behavioral Medicine, February 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Paul K Han

  90. Prevalence of Tamoxifen Use for Breast Cancer Chemoprevention Among U.S. Women

    Article • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, February 2010, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

    Dr Paul K Han

  91. Predictors of Perceived Ambiguity About Cancer Prevention Recommendations: Sociodemographic Factors and Mass Media Exposures

    Article • Health Communication, November 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul K Han

  92. Aversion to Ambiguity Regarding Medical Tests and Treatments: Measurement, Prevalence, and Relationship to Sociodemographic Factors

    Article • Journal of Health Communication, August 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul K Han

  93. Impact of Cancer on Health-Related Quality of Life of Older Americans

    Article • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, June 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ron D. Hays, Dr Paul K Han

  94. Laypersons' Responses to the Communication of Uncertainty Regarding Cancer Risk Estimates

    Article • Medical Decision Making, May 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul K Han

  95. Conceptual problems in laypersons’ understanding of individualized cancer risk: a qualitative study

    Article • Health Expectations, March 2009, Wiley

    Dr Paul K Han

  96. How numeracy influences risk comprehension and medical decision making.

    Article • Psychological Bulletin, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Paul K Han

  97. Perceived ambiguity about cancer prevention recommendations: associations with cancer-related perceptions and behaviours in a US population survey

    Article • Health Expectations, December 2007, Wiley

    Dr Paul K Han

  98. Communicating the Uncertainty of Harms and Benefits of Medical Interventions

    Article • Medical Decision Making, September 2007, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul K Han

  99. Rethinking the Objectives of Decision Aids: A Call for Conceptual Clarity

    Article • Medical Decision Making, September 2007, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul K Han

  100. Perceived Ambiguity about Screening Mammography Recommendations: Association with Future Mammography Uptake and Perceptions

    Article • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, March 2007, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

    Dr Paul K Han

  101. Physician Responsibility: The Authors' Response

    Article • Journal of Palliative Medicine, August 2006, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Paul K Han

  102. The Palliative Care Clinical Evaluation Exercise

    Article • MedEdPORTAL, June 2006, Association of American Medical Colleges

    Dr Paul K Han

  103. Decision Making in Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening

    Article • American Journal of Preventive Medicine, May 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  104. Opioid Contracts in Chronic Nonmalignant Pain Management: Objectives and Uncertainties

    Article • The American Journal of Medicine, April 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  105. Perceived Ambiguity About Cancer Prevention Recommendations: Relationship to Perceptions of Cancer Preventability, Risk, and Worry

    Article • Journal of Health Communication, February 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul K Han

  106. Palliative Care Services, Patient Abandonment, and the Scope of Physicians' Responsibilities in End-of-Life Care

    Article • Journal of Palliative Medicine, December 2005, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Paul K Han

  107. The Palliative Care Clinical Evaluation Exercise (CEX): An Experience-Based Intervention for Teaching End-of-Life Communication Skills

    Article • Academic Medicine, July 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Paul K Han

  108. Myoclonus Secondary to Withdrawal from Transdermal Fentanyl

    Article • Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, January 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  109. The right time for end-of-life care

    Article • The American Journal of Medicine, October 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Paul K Han

  110. The Challenge of Chronic AIDS-Related Nausea and Vomiting

    Article • Journal of Palliative Medicine, March 2001, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Paul K Han

  111. Assessing Psycho-social Factors of Uncertainty using a Case Example of Genome Sequencing

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Paul K Han

  112. Ambiguity Aversion in Medicine Scale

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Paul K Han