Estimating adjusted NNTs in randomised controlled trials with binary outcomes: A simulation study

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 498-505

  Bender, Ralf ^a,b   Vervölgyi, Volker ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY IN HEALTH CARE IQWIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjustment for covariates; Logistic regression; Number needed to treat (NNT); Randomised controlled trials (RCTs); Risk difference (RD)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; DROSOPHILA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NUMBER NEEDED TO TREAT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DROSOPHILA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 77957754754     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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