ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how to consider relative risk in patient management and use risk management techniques or predict risk. It also explains how to use techniques already seen to predict risk and apply corrections for small samples in chi-squared test. The chapter describes hoe to make use of existing evidence to avoid the use of horrendously complex statistics that most of us couldn't use properly anyway. Risk management is not in fact new in healthcare, although many clinicians may find it so. It has traditionally been used widely in public health and to manage population-wide health issues. Under clinical governance, it is likely to be brought explicitly into the care of individuals as part of the evidence base on which decisions about care are made. The chapter uses a series of mini-scenarios to show how practising clinicians can use published evidence to evaluate relative risks for their patients, which is the obligation placed upon them by clinical governance.
