What’s the Risk: Differentiating Risk Ratios, Odds Ratios, and Hazard Ratios?

Risk ratios, odds ratios, and hazard ratios are three common, but often misused, statistical measures in clinical research. In this paper, the authors dissect what each of these terms define, and provide examples from the medical literature to illustrate each of these statistical measures. Finally,...

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Autores principales: George, Andrew, Stead, Thor S, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Medical Education
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32983737
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10047
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description Risk ratios, odds ratios, and hazard ratios are three common, but often misused, statistical measures in clinical research. In this paper, the authors dissect what each of these terms define, and provide examples from the medical literature to illustrate each of these statistical measures. Finally, the correct and incorrect methods to use these measures are summarized.
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spelling pubmed-75158122020-09-26 What’s the Risk: Differentiating Risk Ratios, Odds Ratios, and Hazard Ratios? George, Andrew Stead, Thor S Ganti, Latha Cureus Medical Education Risk ratios, odds ratios, and hazard ratios are three common, but often misused, statistical measures in clinical research. In this paper, the authors dissect what each of these terms define, and provide examples from the medical literature to illustrate each of these statistical measures. Finally, the correct and incorrect methods to use these measures are summarized. Cureus 2020-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7515812/ /pubmed/32983737 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10047 Text en Copyright © 2020, George et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515812/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10047
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