What are the results?

Format: Websites

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Language/s: English

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Target Audience: Further education

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Short Description:

A Duke Univ. tutorial explaining how to address the questions: How large was the treatment effect? What was the absolute risk reduction?

Key Concepts addressed:

• 2-15 人数または転帰イベントの少ない公正な比較は誤解を招く可能性があります
• 2-18 「エビデンスがない」と「効果がない」を混同しないでください

Details

A Web based Duke University. tutorial explaining how to address the question: How large was the treatment effect? What was the absolute risk reduction?

How large was the treatment effect? What was the absolute risk reduction?

Results: At 2 years, diabetes remission had occurred in none of the patients receiving medical therapy, as compared with 15 of 20 (75%) undergoing gastric bypass and 19 of 20 (95%) undergoing biliopancreatic diversion (P<0.001 for both comparisons). There was a significant association between study group and rate of remission. However, since there were no remissions in the medical-therapy group, risk ratios were computed in a more conservative fashion on the assumption that remission had occurred in the 2 patients in the medical-therapy group who dropped out. Read more