 Numbers Needed To Treat
"Numbers Needed To Treat" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Number of patients who need to be treated in order to prevent one additional bad outcome. It is the inverse of Absolute Risk Reduction.
| Descriptor ID |
D061366
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.581.500.577 E05.581.500.902.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Absolute Risk Reduction- Absolute Risk Reduction
- Absolute Risk Reductions
- Reduction, Absolute Risk
- Reductions, Absolute Risk
- Risk Reduction, Absolute
- Risk Reductions, Absolute
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| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Poklepovic AS, Luke JJ. Considering adjuvant therapy for stage II melanoma. Cancer. 2020 03 15; 126(6):1166-1174.
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Wilt TJ, Brawer MK, Jones KM, Barry MJ, Aronson WJ, Fox S, Gingrich JR, Wei JT, Gilhooly P, Grob BM, Nsouli I, Iyer P, Cartagena R, Snider G, Roehrborn C, Sharifi R, Blank W, Pandya P, Andriole GL, Culkin D, Wheeler T. Radical prostatectomy versus observation for localized prostate cancer. N Engl J Med. 2012 Jul 19; 367(3):203-13.
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