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. 2021 Feb 25:8:535244.
doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.535244. eCollection 2021.

Risk-Based Care: Let's Think Outside the Box

James Geoffrey Chase  1 , Geoffrey M Shaw  2 , Jean-Charles Preiser  3 , Jennifer L Knopp  1 , Thomas Desaive  4
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Risk-Based Care: Let's Think Outside the Box

James Geoffrey Chase et al. Front Med (Lausanne). .
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Keywords: cost-benefit analysis; decision-making; risk; risk-based assessment; risk-based protocol.

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Figure 1
Schematic example of risk-based vs. typical approaches. (A) When distributions are unknown and median or central tendency values are targeted all distributions are centered together. A wide or fat-tailed distribution of response due to patient variability can create significant risk of being too low or too high compared to a desired range. (B) When the distribution and the tails in particular are known, then a set threshold of risk (5%) of being too low (or high) can be set and used to guide care, effectively shifting the distributions to a set lower bound in the example shown, and allowing the remainder of the distribution to fall where it may.
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