Implications of trial results: the potentially misleading notions of number needed to treat and average duration of life gained
- 1 November 2000
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in The Lancet
- Vol. 356 (9243) , 1757-1759
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(00)03215-3
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