numbers needed to treat

Preferred Label : numbers needed to treat;

MeSH definition : Number of patients who need to be treated in order to prevent one additional bad outcome. It is the inverse of Absolute Risk Reduction.;

Wikipedia automatic translation : Number needed to treat;

Related MeSH term : absolute risk reduction; Absolute Risk Reductions; Reduction, Absolute Risk; Reductions, Absolute Risk; Risk Reduction, Absolute; Risk Reductions, Absolute;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number needed to treat;

Details

Origin ID

D061366;

UMLS CUI

C3179138;

Allowable qualifiers
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase [OMIM gene]
- Received therapy or drug for (contextual qualifier) (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Treat [NCIt concept]
- Treated with (attribute) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Treating [ICNP action]
- Treats (attribute) [SNOMED CT concept]
- nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase [ORDO Gene]
- treated with [SNOMED Notion]
Record concept(s)
- absolute risk reduction [MeSH concept]
- numbers needed to treat [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Quantitative Concept [UMLS semantic type]

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