Using and Interpreting Adjusted NNT Measures in Biomedical Research
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Using and Interpreting Adjusted NNT Measures in Biomedical Research
The number needed to treat (NNT) is a popular effect measure to present study results in biomedical research. NNTs were originally proposed to describe the absolute effect of a new treatment compared with a standard treatment or placebo in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with binary outcome. The concept of the NNT measure has been applied to a number of other research areas involving the de...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Open Dentistry Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1874-2106
DOI: 10.2174/1874210601004010072