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. 2003 Nov 15;327(7424):1162-5.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7424.1162.

Communicating risks at the population level: application of population impact numbers

Richard F Heller  1 , Iain Buchan, Richard Edwards, Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Patrick McElduff, Selwyn St Leger
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Communicating risks at the population level: application of population impact numbers

Richard F Heller et al. BMJ. .

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  • BMJ. 2004 Jan 3;328(7430):35

Abstract

Communicating population risk to policy makers and the public is important, but traditional epidemiological measures of risk are difficult to understand. PIN-ER-t, a measure of the population impact of risk factors, is simpler to understand and hence may be useful

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