Absolute risk reduction and relative risk reduction

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How does RRR (relative risk reduction) provide different information than ARR (absolute risk reduction) and NNT (number needed to treat) analysis as measures of efficacy in RCTs? (select all that apply) Group of answer choices If a treatment works equally well in all situations, RRR will be identical over all levels of disease risk; whereas ARR and NNT will change as the risk of disease changes Whereas RRR provides information about how well an intervention works, ARR and NNT provide information about the importance of an intervention Poor NNT or AAR numbers can hide evidence that a treatment works well Good RRR numbers can inflate the value of an unimportant treatment

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