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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.

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Number of patients who need to be treated in order to prevent one additional bad outcome. It is the inverse of Absolute Risk Reduction.


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Bar chart showing 1 publications over 1 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 2018
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