Interpreting and Reporting Measures of Risk
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| Level: |
Foundation
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Area: |
Professional Techniques
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| Code: |
PTF15
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Duration: |
03:00:00
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| Workshop profile: |
| This workshop is for medical writers interested in understanding the most common rates, ratios, and measures of risk used in medical research. |
| Objective: |
| Participants completing the workshop will be able to identify, interpret, compute, and appropriately use 11 measures of risk and the rates and ratios on which they are based. Participants will also become familiar with the potential for manipulating readers through the use and misuse of these measures. |
| Content: |
| Eleven measures of risk and their associated rates and ratios will be taught, as well as the ethical implications of how risk is reported. The workshop is based on Chapter 2, “Comparing Probabilities of Events: Reporting Measures of Risks”, of “How To Report Statistics in Medicine: Annotated Guidelines for Authors, Editors, and Reviewers”, Second Edition, by Thomas A. Lang and Michelle Secic (American College of Physicians, 2006). |
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