We also evaluated
differences in risk reduction across monetary periods.
Not exact matches
The performance of different propensity - score methods for estimating
differences in proportions (
risk differences or absolute
risk reductions)
in observational studies.
These
differences may explain the lower rate of SIDS
in this population and this study identifies these issues as clear targets for SIDS
risk reduction among White British families.
To understand better the
difference between the overall
risk reduction and the
reduction in those with a family history, Stuebe offers this analogy: Suppose the Los Angeles Lakers and a group of 5 - year - olds had a free - throw contest.
Although the
difference in patient mortality between male and female physicians was modest, an observed effect size of a 0.43 - percentage point
difference or a relative
risk reduction of 4 %
in mortality is arguably a clinically meaningful
difference.
No significant
differences in weight loss, strength gain, or cardio metabolic
risk factor
reductions were seen.
Going back to their analysis, the
difference in successful outcomes between a rising equity glide path strategy and a
risk reduction glide path strategy similar to IFA's is 1.5 % (95.1 % vs. 93.6 %).
The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses, tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control
difference in the overall rates of substantiated rates of child abuse and neglect (irrespective of
risk) and an 80 percent
difference for families
in which the mothers were low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too low to serve as a viable outcome
in a subsequent trial of the program
in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and
reductions in childhood mortality from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of abuse and neglect.20, 22