Can someone help me? I'm a lay person who's having trouble applying the PRR formula (possibly because it's not logical). I can't understand the concept of of "All other adverse events" -- is that total number of reported adverse events of all kinds? Why would they use it as a denominator? Why wouldn't they use "total number vaccina…
Can someone help me? I'm a lay person who's having trouble applying the PRR formula (possibly because it's not logical). I can't understand the concept of of "All other adverse events" -- is that total number of reported adverse events of all kinds? Why would they use it as a denominator? Why wouldn't they use "total number vaccinated?"
If that's true, then it wouldn't be particularly useful formula, would it? A dangerous vaccine creating a very large number of adverse events could make some of the worst adverse events seem insignificant, and safe vaccine with a tiny number of adverse events would magnify them, triggering an alarm for a relatively rare adverse reaction.
Can someone help me? I'm a lay person who's having trouble applying the PRR formula (possibly because it's not logical). I can't understand the concept of of "All other adverse events" -- is that total number of reported adverse events of all kinds? Why would they use it as a denominator? Why wouldn't they use "total number vaccinated?"
If that's true, then it wouldn't be particularly useful formula, would it? A dangerous vaccine creating a very large number of adverse events could make some of the worst adverse events seem insignificant, and safe vaccine with a tiny number of adverse events would magnify them, triggering an alarm for a relatively rare adverse reaction.