Expressing medicine side effects: assessing the effectiveness of absolute risk, relative risk, and number needed to harm, and the provision of baseline risk information

Dianne C Berry, Peter Knapp, Theo Raynor

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Abstract

To assess the effectiveness of absolute risk, relative risk, and number needed to harm formats for medicine side effects, with and without the provision of baseline risk information.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)89-96
Number of pages8
JournalPatient Education and Counseling
Volume63
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006

Keywords

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Analysis of Variance
  • Contraceptives, Oral
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical
  • England
  • Factor Analysis, Statistical
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Informed Consent
  • Middle Aged
  • Pamphlets
  • Patient Education as Topic
  • Patient Satisfaction
  • Questionnaires
  • Risk
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Factors
  • Risk Reduction Behavior
  • Teaching Materials
  • Thromboembolism
  • Women

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