Episode 23: Making sense of risk in everyday practice

Do you know what risk is and how to assess it to aid clinical decision making? In this episode, Rachel Dean and Caroline Scobie build on their recent In Practice article to explain what relative and absolute risk is, and how to put that knowledge into practice for the patient in front of you. They use canine neutering as an example – a very common consultation in general practice – to illustrate how to build confidence in your clinical advice to owners depending on what is important to them. And while published research can help inform the advice you give, by doing your own clinic audit you can also assess what works for you in your practice.