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Calculation of NNTs in RCTs with time-to-event outcomes: A literature review

BACKGROUND: The number needed to treat (NNT) is a well-known effect measure for reporting the results of clinical trials. In the case of time-to-event outcomes, the calculation of NNTs is more difficult than in the case of binary data. The frequency of using NNTs to report results of randomised cont...

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Autores principales: Hildebrandt, Mandy, Vervölgyi, Elke, Bender, Ralf
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2666755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19302699
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-9-21