{"title":"Interpreting Odds and Risk and Understanding the Difference: Linking Evidence to Practice.","authors":"Steven J Kamper","doi":"10.2519/jospt.2025.0701","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Categorical outcomes are most often reported in terms of relative risk or odds ratios. Interpreting what these metrics mean can be difficult for clinicians, and researchers often make mistakes in published papers. Key points to understand include the following: odds ratios cannot be interpreted in terms of likelihood of an outcome, in fact they have no intuitive meaning for a patient; relative risks and odds ratios are heavily influenced by how common or rare the outcome is; and an odds ratio will always be larger than a risk ratio from the same data. <i>J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 2025;55(4):1-2. Epub 26 Feb 2025. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2025.0701</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":50099,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy","volume":"55 4","pages":"229-230"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2519/jospt.2025.0701","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ORTHOPEDICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Categorical outcomes are most often reported in terms of relative risk or odds ratios. Interpreting what these metrics mean can be difficult for clinicians, and researchers often make mistakes in published papers. Key points to understand include the following: odds ratios cannot be interpreted in terms of likelihood of an outcome, in fact they have no intuitive meaning for a patient; relative risks and odds ratios are heavily influenced by how common or rare the outcome is; and an odds ratio will always be larger than a risk ratio from the same data. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 2025;55(4):1-2. Epub 26 Feb 2025. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2025.0701.
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The Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy® (JOSPT®) publishes scientifically rigorous, clinically relevant content for physical therapists and others in the health care community to advance musculoskeletal and sports-related practice globally. To this end, JOSPT features the latest evidence-based research and clinical cases in musculoskeletal health, injury, and rehabilitation, including physical therapy, orthopaedics, sports medicine, and biomechanics.
With an impact factor of 3.090, JOSPT is among the highest ranked physical therapy journals in Clarivate Analytics''s Journal Citation Reports, Science Edition (2017). JOSPT stands eighth of 65 journals in the category of rehabilitation, twelfth of 77 journals in orthopedics, and fourteenth of 81 journals in sport sciences. JOSPT''s 5-year impact factor is 4.061.
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