The number needed to treat: a clinically useful measure of treatment effect

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• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  British medical journal

• Publication date

  1995-02-18

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1136/BMJ.310.6977.452PMID 7873954PMCID PMC2548824
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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