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Finally, people may find it odd to think about the therapeutic benefits in terms of postponement of heart attack or hip fracture.
Lay people can discriminate between levels of treatment effectiveness when they are presented in terms of postponement of an adverse event.
In this randomized study, the participants could discriminate between different levels of effectiveness when they were presented in terms of postponement of a heart attack.
The hypothesis was that lay people's preferences for a preventive therapy against heart attack were influenced by the magnitude of its effect when they are expressed in terms of postponement of disease.
This study aimed to test the hypothesis that lay people may be able to discriminate between therapies when their effectiveness is expressed in terms of postponement of an adverse disease event.
The randomization was performed at the interview by means of a computerized system, and the study was designed with the sole purpose of exploring whether lay people can discriminate between levels of effectiveness when they are presented in terms of postponement of adverse outcomes.
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The benefit in terms of average postponement of hip fractures from osteoporosis intervention was estimated at 12 days when an intervention that reduces the risk of hip fracture by 50%, was initiated at the age of 50 and continued for one year [ 13].
The second is a quality improvement study, comparing group 2 (instruction to postpone test ordering) with group 3 (instruction to postpone test ordering plus quality improvement strategy) in terms of the actual postponement of test ordering.
In a later study the findings suggested that laypersons were able to discriminate between levels of osteoporosis intervention effectiveness when it was presented in terms of hip fracture postponement rather than NNT [ 14].
Alternatively, benefits can be explained in terms of gains in life expectancy or postponement of adverse events [ 7], and such effect measures may be easier to evaluate [ 8, 9].
A study of osteoporosis interventions [ 27] found that lay people seem to understand POL in the sense that they were able to discriminate between different levels of effectiveness when presented in terms of disease-free survival (i.e. "postponement" of hip fracture), but not in terms of NNT.
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