Absolute risk reduction and How Clinicians know Whether their Treatments Will Work

Measures of association are means of estimating the strength of the relationship between observed outcomes and factors that may produce the outcome. Common measures of association are the odds ratio, relative risk, absolute risk reduction, and number needed to treat. Odds ratios are used in studies in which the incidence (or true risk) of disease […]

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