BMJ 2006;333 (16 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7581.0-b
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Journals omit absolute risks
Absolute risks should be routinely included in abstracts, adjacent to any reported risk ratio, to allow readers to discern the meaning of ratio measures. In a structured review of the accessibility of absolute risk data in six leading journals, including the BMJ, Schwartz and colleagues (10.1136/bmj.38985.564317.7C) examined 222 articles with study designs that allow absolute risks to be calculated. They found 68% of articles failed to report absolute risks in the abstract, and half of these did not report them anywhere in the article.
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- Ratio measures in leading medical journals: structured review of accessibility of underlying absolute risks
- Lisa M Schwartz, Steven Woloshin, Evan L Dvorin, and H Gilbert Welch
BMJ 2006 333: 1248.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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