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number needed to treat: a standalone construct

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Clinical epidemiology

the number of patients who must be treated to prevent one additional bad outcome, the reciprocal of the absolute risk reduction.

In clinical epidemiology, number needed to treat refers to the number of patients who must be treated to prevent one additional bad outcome, the reciprocal of the absolute risk reduction. This meaning comes from Laupacis (1988) in New England Journal of Medicine.[1]

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References

  1. Laupacis, A., Sackett, D. L., & Roberts, R. S. (1988). An Assessment of Clinically Useful Measures of the Consequences of Treatment. New England Journal of Medicine, 318(26), 1728-1733. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198806303182605

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