Methods to convert continuous outcomes into odds ratios of treatment response and numbers needed to treat: meta-epidemiological study

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Date of Publication
2012
Publication Type
Article
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Institut für Sozial- ...

Departement Klinische...

Contributor
Johnston, Bradley C
Guyatt, Gordon H
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600 - Technology::610...

300 - Social sciences...

Series
International journal of epidemiology
ISSN or ISBN (if monograph)
0300-5771
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
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PubMed ID
23045205
Description
Clinicians find standardized mean differences (SMDs) calculated from continuous outcomes difficult to interpret. Our objective was to determine the performance of methods in converting SMDs or means to odds ratios of treatment response and numbers needed to treat (NNTs) as more intuitive measures of treatment effect.
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