Number needed to treat
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number-needed-to-treat-173-5333858
title:
Number needed to treat
text:
The number needed to treat (NNT) or number needed to treat for an additional beneficial outcome (NNTB) is an epidemiological measure used in communicating the effectiveness of a health-care intervention, typically a treatment with medication. The NNT is the average number of patients who need to be treated to prevent one additional bad outcome. It is defined as the inverse of the absolute risk reduction, and computed as 1 /, where I u is the incidence in the control (unexposed) group, and I e is
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Epidemiological measure
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_needed_to_treat
date created:
2005-05-30T20:35:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T05:07:33Z
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