Relative risk reduction

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In clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine, the relative risk reduction is a measure of the likelihood of a clinical outcome in group of patients exposed to a factor compared to a control group of patients.[1]

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Two-by-two table for a randomized-controlled trial or cohort study
Outcome
Present Absent
Experimental group Cell A Cell B Total in the experimental group
Control group Cell C Cell D Total in the control group
Total with the outcome Total without the outcome

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