Thresholds according to risk with standard treatment for a range of hypothetical benefits (reduction in relative risk, RR) and harms associated with a more aggressive treatment

1. benefit 30%, harm = 5%, threshold = 17% (- - -), 2. benefit 40%, harm = 5%, threshold = 12.5% (--), 3. benefit 10%, harm = 1%, threshold = 12.5% (--), 4. benefit 50%, harm = 20%, threshold = 40% (----).<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "A decision-analytic approach to define poor prognosis patients: a case study for non-seminomatous germ cell cancer patients"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/8/1</p><p>BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008;8():1-1.</p><p>Published online 3 Jan 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2266916.</p><p>