TY - JOUR
T1 - Number needed to treat is a simple measure of treatment efficacy for clinicians
AU - Rajkumar, S. Vincent
AU - Sampathkumar, Priya
AU - Gustafson, Anthony B.
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - NNT is a useful and clinically meaningful measure for assessing treatment efficacy. NNT is the reciprocal of the absolute risk reduction and is easy to calculate. NNT quantities absolute benefits and risks of treatment, unlike relative risk reduction, odds ratio, and other methods of reporting results of therapeutic studies.
AB - NNT is a useful and clinically meaningful measure for assessing treatment efficacy. NNT is the reciprocal of the absolute risk reduction and is easy to calculate. NNT quantities absolute benefits and risks of treatment, unlike relative risk reduction, odds ratio, and other methods of reporting results of therapeutic studies.
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U2 - 10.1007/BF02600047
DO - 10.1007/BF02600047
M3 - Article
C2 - 8803742
AN - SCOPUS:0030015460
SN - 0884-8734
VL - 11
SP - 357
EP - 359
JO - Journal of general internal medicine
JF - Journal of general internal medicine
IS - 6
ER -