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  • AcademyHealth: Do NNTs work?

      November 14, 2014 at 12:50 pm
      Austin Frakt

    Some say that the NNT or number needed to treat, a metric of therapeutic benefit, is harder for patients to understand than other metrics. The evidence on this is thin and conflicting, however. More in my AcademyHealth post.

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