Evidence Based Medicine Flashcards
1
Q
What happens to relative risk, when the absolute risk halves?
A
Nothing
2
Q
NNT is 100, what does this tell us?
A
It is the no of people who need to take the treatment to re
additional beneficial outcome in one person
3
Q
Examples of quantitive data?
A
Ratio:
• hight, weight, income - true zero
Interval
• temp in Celsius- no true zero
- Differences between measurements*
4
Q
Examples of qualitative data?
A
Ordinal
• rankings
Nominal
• pie chart
• colours
• gender