Generalizability vs. Transportability in Trials

One other general problem is that NNT envisions a group of patients almost as if they are competing with each other to see who wins. I don’t like any measure that involves that. I’ve heard patients say, when told they have a 5 chances out of 100 of surviving 2 months, “I know I’m one of the 5”. We need to stick with absolute risk in [0, 1] as well as life expectancies IMHO.