Odds ratios versus risk ratios in intensive care research: Using frailty in intensive care as a case study

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Oberndorf, Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
• ² Institute of General Practice, Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
• ³ Department of Medical Intensive Care, Hadassah Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
• ⁴ Service de Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
• ⁵ Department of Research and Development, Haukeland University Hospital, and University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Vascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany.