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Information on calculating the number needed to treat statistic:
- Wikipedia
- “An Assessment of Clinically Useful Measures of the Consequences of Treatment” from NEJM—this was the original article describing the number needed to treat (unfortunately, not available electronically)
- “The Number Needed To Treat Turns 20—and continues to be used and misused” from CMAJ
- “Reporting Number Needed to Treat and Absolute Risk Reduction in Randomized Controlled Trials” from JAMA
- Explanation of the number needed to treat from “The NNT” (a website created to quickly provide evidence based medicine in terms of number needed to treat)
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