However, because our goal was to demonstrate overall health benefits, absolute numbers of prevented outcomes are a more relevant metric for assessing public health impacts compared to normalized estimates.
Advocates of strict equality argue that inequalities permitted by the Difference Principle are unacceptable even if they do benefit the absolute position of the least advantaged.
Such is the benefit of absolute power.
Invasive management when performed was associated with substantial benefit; greater absolute benefit was demonstrated in elderly patients compared to younger patients.
Still, honesty demands that the benefits of absolute adherence to a maximalist view of rights be weighed against their costs.
Much is made of the relatively small absolute benefit estimated, and indeed the absolute benefit estimated here is notably smaller than that estimated in a randomised trial, and in an evaluation of service screening [ 3, 4].
However, in many circumstances, risk scores will need to provide prognostic information and accurate estimation of the likely absolute benefit from an intervention for cost-benefit analyses.
Another target for future research is estimation of the absolute benefit of screening at different ages, and the absolute incremental benefit of screening at earlier ages in addition to later ages.
As informative as Social Security's absolute benefit size and its size compared to other nations' benefits, there is a much more important measure.
Ranges of survival projections across scenarios are wide, but ranges of estimates of the absolute benefit due to treatment are small, suggesting little sensitivity of absolute benefit estimates to key parameter values.
However, the absolute benefit of taxane-based treatment is small (3% to 7% absolute OS benefit within 5 years after treatment) [ 16, 38- 41] and needs to be balanced against serious side effects.
