And the absolute benefits of these preventive medications is slight, measured in single digits.
Our objective is to determine relative savings, rather than absolute benefits.
However, neither trial was powered for superiority for clinical end points, and the routine performance of angiographic follow-up may have artificially exaggerated the absolute benefits of EES.
Although the proportional benefits of adjuvant radiotherapy are similar for different prognostic risk groups of patients, the absolute benefits depend on the risk of relapse and therefore vary considerably between prognostic groups.
Interestingly, the absolute benefits in health status were greatest for those with the highest number of health deficits, i.e. the most frail.
Seasonal IPT in the presence of long-acting regimens for case management retains its relative advantage over EPI-IPTi, though the absolute benefits would become smaller.
The absolute benefits of DES compared to BMS may be greater in CKD patients given their higher restenosis risk, which can potentially contribute to the survival advantage.
Estimation of absolute benefits and risks of treatment strategies.
The absolute benefits of effective strategies on questionnaire response are illustrated in Table 4.
The relative and absolute benefits would not necessarily be reproduced in a UK programme.
