The phrase "absolute risk information" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to health, statistics, or decision-making where specific risk levels are quantified.
Example: "The study provided absolute risk information that helped patients understand their likelihood of developing the condition."
Alternatives: "exact risk data" or "definitive risk details".
Providing baseline absolute risk information in certain disease contexts may lead to improved patient treatment decision-making.
It is clear from the results that members of the public will generally use explicit absolute risk information in quite rational ways when it is available.
Relative risk information often has a disproportionately large emotional and behavioural impact, in the absence of absolute risk information (Gigerenzer, 2002).
In scenarios typical of health risk information, relative risk information led respondents to make non-normative decisions that were "corrected" when the frame used absolute risk information.
The lack of effect of gender and race suggests that a standard strategy of presenting absolute risk information may improve patient decision-making.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of relative and absolute risk information on patient decision-making in scenarios typical of health information for patients.
Without information about the absolute risks, health information may become misleading and individuals may reach conclusions that go quite counter to what they actually think about the appropriate balance of benefits and risks of treatments.
In terms of knowledge, one study found that the provision of absolute and relative risk information (compared with no risk information) increased understanding about the positive predictive value of screening for bowel cancer by 17%.
Natter and Berry's randomized controlled trial compared the relative and absolute forms of presenting risk information about influenza and the need for vaccination [ 18].
Measuring ORc may even be more useful for clinicians than knowing the absolute risk because it gives information about the community-level risk of having a resistant organism compared to a susceptible organism in persons with a particular recent antimicrobial drug history (23 ).
Receiving the risk information in absolute risk terms for breast cancer significantly increased the likelihood of a positive recommendation, but was not so for heart disease.
