Communicating study results to our patients: Which way is best?

Before we are able to communicate evidence and evidence results to patients we must first be familiar with the common ways by which results may be presented to our patients. We describe five approaches (relative risk, risk reduction, odds ratio, absolute risk difference and number needed to treat) o...

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Autores principales: Petrisor, BA, Tornetta III, Paul
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19826518
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.40249
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description Before we are able to communicate evidence and evidence results to patients we must first be familiar with the common ways by which results may be presented to our patients. We describe five approaches (relative risk, risk reduction, odds ratio, absolute risk difference and number needed to treat) of transforming the results of an orthopaedic study for communication with patients.
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spelling pubmed-27596232009-10-13 Communicating study results to our patients: Which way is best? Petrisor, BA Tornetta III, Paul Indian J Orthop Symposium Before we are able to communicate evidence and evidence results to patients we must first be familiar with the common ways by which results may be presented to our patients. We describe five approaches (relative risk, risk reduction, odds ratio, absolute risk difference and number needed to treat) of transforming the results of an orthopaedic study for communication with patients. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2759623/ /pubmed/19826518 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.40249 Text en © Indian Journal of Orthopaedics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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