Consider a physician advising a patient to start antihypertensive treatment. He has the unenviable task of presenting often conflicting trial data in a comprehensible manner. He must justly represent the known risks and benefits such that his patient can make a reasonably Informed choice. Should the physician cite the number needed to treat or the average duration of life gained to clarify his explanations?
%0 Journal Article
%1 Lubsen2000
%A Lubsen, J
%A Hoes, A
%A Grobbee, D
%D 2000
%J Lancet
%K ClinicalTrialsasTopic ClinicalTrialsasTopic:standards Humans Prognosis ProportionalHazardsModels RandomizedControlledTrialsasTopic:standards SampleSize SurvivalAnalysis RCT
%N 9243
%P 1757-9
%R 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)03215-3
%T Implications of trial results: the potentially misleading notions of number needed to treat and average duration of life gained.
%U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11095272
%V 356
%X Consider a physician advising a patient to start antihypertensive treatment. He has the unenviable task of presenting often conflicting trial data in a comprehensible manner. He must justly represent the known risks and benefits such that his patient can make a reasonably Informed choice. Should the physician cite the number needed to treat or the average duration of life gained to clarify his explanations?
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abstract = {Consider a physician advising a patient to start antihypertensive treatment. He has the unenviable task of presenting often conflicting trial data in a comprehensible manner. He must justly represent the known risks and benefits such that his patient can make a reasonably Informed choice. Should the physician cite the number needed to treat or the average duration of life gained to clarify his explanations?},
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author = {Lubsen, J and Hoes, A and Grobbee, D},
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pages = {1757-9},
pmid = {11095272},
timestamp = {2023-05-04T08:59:38.000+0200},
title = {Implications of trial results: the potentially misleading notions of number needed to treat and average duration of life gained.},
url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11095272},
volume = 356,
year = 2000
}