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The Number Needed to Treat: 25 Years of Trials and Tribulations in Clinical Research
The number needed to treat (NNT) is a simple measure of a treatment’s impact, increasingly reported in randomized trials and observational studies, but often incorrectly calculated in studies involving varying follow-up times. We discuss the NNT in these contexts and illustrate the concept using sev...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Rambam Health Care Campus
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524406/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26241223 http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10218 |