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Table 1 Risk frequency and various verbal descriptors

From: What do we know about communicating risk? A brief review and suggestion for contextualising serious, but rare, risk, and the example of cox-2 selective and non-selective NSAIDs

Frequency range (1 in)

EU descriptors

Calman verbal scale

Calman descriptive scale

Paling perspective scale

1–9

Very common

  

Very high

10–99

Common

High

Frequent, significant

High

100–999

Uncommon

Moderate

 

Moderate

1,000–9,999

Rare

Low

Tolerable, reasonable

Low

10,000–99,999

Very rare

Very low

 

Very low

100,000–999,999

 

Minimal

Acceptable

Minimal

1,000,000–9,999,999

 

Negligible

Insignificant, safe

Negligible

  1. Data are taken from [41] and other sources. EU, European Union.