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. 1999 Jun 5;318(7197):1548-51.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.318.7197.1548.

Numbers needed to treat derived from meta-analyses--sometimes informative, usually misleading

L Smeeth  1 , A Haines, S Ebrahim
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Numbers needed to treat derived from meta-analyses--sometimes informative, usually misleading

L Smeeth et al. BMJ. .
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