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absolute risk reduction: a standalone construct

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absolute riskreduction1 CONSTRUCTAbsolute risk reductionLAUPACIS · EVIDENCE-BASED

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Evidence-based medicine

the plain difference in event rates between control and treated groups, whose reciprocal gives the number needed to treat.

In evidence-based medicine, absolute risk reduction refers to the plain difference in event rates between control and treated groups, whose reciprocal gives the number needed to treat. This meaning comes from Laupacis (1988) in New England Journal of Medicine.[1]

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  1. Laupacis, A., Sackett, D. L., & Roberts, R. S. (1988). An Assessment of Clinically Useful Measures of the Consequences of Treatment. New England Journal of Medicine, 318(26), 1728-1733. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198806303182605

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