Ratio measures in leading medical journals: structured review of accessibility of underlying absolute risks

I read the article by Schwartz et al with great interest and agree
with the conclusion that the absence of an absoloute risk calculation can
easily exaggerate readers' perceptions of benefit or harm. However, I
found it quite ironic that the authors themselves have not given the
absolute risk for the calculations in their paper inspite of using a
relative risk ratio calculation.

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