Evidence-Based Practice / Unit 6 EBP 0846 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Two Patients, One Relative Reduction
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The idea
A single relative risk reduction applied to a low-risk patient and a high-risk patient produces very different absolute benefits.
In practice
One patient at low annual risk and another at ten times that risk, offered the same drug on the same relative figure.
Where people slip
The relative figure is identical for both. Everything that differs between them sits in the absolute measures.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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