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Guyatt G, Rennie D, Meade MO, Cook DJ
Part B Therapy
Chapter 11.2. Example Numbers Needed to Treat
Ignacio Ferreira-González, Christina Lacchetti, Gordon Guyatt, P. J. Devereaux
How Can We Summarize Benefits and Risks?


Topics Discussed: number needed to treat, summarizing the evidence

Excerpt: "Evidence-based practice requires that clinicians summarize the benefits and risks of treatment of patients. Furthermore, when called on, clinicians must incorporate patient values and preferences with benefit/risk evidence to determine which management strategies are in patients' best interests (see Chapter 22.2, Decision Making and the Patient)...."
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