Number needed to sacrifice: statistical taboo or decision-making tool?

Number needed to sacrifice: statistical taboo or decision-making tool?

UNLABELLED The percentage that benefit from medical preventive measures is small but all are exposed to the risk of side effects so most of those harmed would never benefit from their use. There is no expression or acronym to describe the ratio of harm to benefit nor discussion of what level of harm is acceptable for what benefit. Here we describe the harm to benefit ratio (HBR) expressed as nu...

Intuition: Myth or a Decision-Making Tool?

Faced with today’s ill-structured business environment of fast-paced change and rising uncertainty, organizations have been searching for management tools that will perform satisfactorily under such ambiguous conditions. In the arena of managerial decision-making, one of the approaches being assessed is the use of intuition. Based on our definition of intuition as a non-sequential information p...

Number needed to treat (NNT); number needed to harm (NNH).

Number Needed to Treat

Number Needed To… $ave?

The 'Number Needed to Treat' (NNT) is a useful measure for estimating the number of patients that would need to receive a therapeutic intervention to avoid one of the adverse events that the treatment is designed to prevent. We explored the possibility of an adaption of NNT to estimate the 'Number Needed to $ave' (NN$) as a new, conceptual systems metric to estimate potential cost-savings to th...