I appreciate your response. I personally like the NNT approach, and feel it is one way to discuss risk with patients. There’s also a great website that has NNTs for all sorts of screening tests and treatments. Another way to approach risk and benefit with patients is to calculate/estimate their absolute risk with and without a treatme…
I appreciate your response. I personally like the NNT approach, and feel it is one way to discuss risk with patients. There’s also a great website that has NNTs for all sorts of screening tests and treatments. Another way to approach risk and benefit with patients is to calculate/estimate their absolute risk with and without a treatment. I have done this with the PREVENT calculator for heart disease. Definitely there is not a single approach that will work for all people.
I appreciate your response. I personally like the NNT approach, and feel it is one way to discuss risk with patients. There’s also a great website that has NNTs for all sorts of screening tests and treatments. Another way to approach risk and benefit with patients is to calculate/estimate their absolute risk with and without a treatment. I have done this with the PREVENT calculator for heart disease. Definitely there is not a single approach that will work for all people.