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Reduction in number to treat versus number needed to treat

BACKGROUND: We propose a new measure of treatment effect based on the expected reduction in the number of patients to treat (RNT) which is defined as the difference of the reciprocals of clinical measures of interest between two arms. Compared with the conventional number needed to treat (NNT), RNT...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Chenyang, Yin, Guosheng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7945324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33750292
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-021-01246-5