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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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Autor principal: Suissa, Samy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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