[fsckboy]

>1 patient in 156 was helped by this intervention

the headline says we're talking about death: does that mean 1 life was saved for every 156 patients?

>In addition, they had 2 false alarms for each true alarm and ... and possibly increased risk from said interventions

but wouldn't this study have captured any deaths from those interventions, so the 1 out of 156 life-savings was net?

[rscho]

Would you suffer serious nonlethal complications from false alarm to (maybe) save your room neighbour that you've never met before? This wouldn't be captured.

[fsckboy]

an individual would probably not make that choice, but the population could easily, the insurance company might, religious leaders might, etc.

this study was measuring deaths and what you are suggesting would be outside this study, but it could be measured also.