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Communicating risk-benefit tradeoffs of various diagnostic and therapeutic strategies to patients is a challenge that increases with the complexity of the issue. The authors from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, sought to discern which format of outcome presentation patients understand better. They randomized 398 patients from an academic adult clinic to be presented with a hypothetical case where the treatment benefit was presented as relative risk reduction (RRR), absolute risk reduction (ARR), number needed to treat (NNT), or a combination of these. They were then …
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