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NNT: Number Needed to Treat or No Need to Think?

NNT: Number Needed to Treat or No Need to Think?

In this edition of #Nephstats, we look at Number Needed to Treat (NNT), a controversial topic creates ripples and roars on social media amongst stat savvy physicians, epidemiologists and biostatisticians. This seems like such a simple and easy number to make sense of a trial’s importance - what could be controversial or wrong about it?