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COPYRIGHT 2003 International Medical News Group
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. -- One simple change in the way risk is explained could have avoided much of the confusion that still surrounds the results published last year from the Women's Health Initiative, according to Dr. Robert Reid.
"Patients have to understand the attributable risk, which is what the risk is in relation to the baseline risk, in order for it to have any meaning," said Dr. Reid, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and chair of the division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.
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