Evidence Based Medicine pills
Evidence Based Medicine pills
Correct use of NNT. The NNT was designed to assess the beneficial effect of a treatment to reduce the risk of an unpleasant event occurring in an intervention group of interest, always with respect to what was observed in a…
Number remaining at risk. The number needed to treat is the most widely used measure of clinical impact in the analysis of the results of a clinical trial. However, the prognosis of patients in whom the outcome under study does…
NNT’s confidence interval. The calculation and interpretation of the confidence intervals of the number needed to treat are described, including the negative extremes of the interval.</p The number needed to treat (NNT) is an impact measure that tells us in…
Association measures. The measures of association are described and how it is preferable to use absolute measures of impact over relative ones.