Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2014 May;25(5):875-6.
doi: 10.1681/ASN.2014020188. Epub 2014 Apr 10.

An inadvertent but explicable error in calculating number needed to treat for reporting survival data

Sudhir K Bowry  1 , Volker Schoder  2 , Christian Apel  3
Affiliations

An inadvertent but explicable error in calculating number needed to treat for reporting survival data

Sudhir K Bowry et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014 May.
No abstract available

Keywords: chronic renal disease; hemodialysis; survival.

PubMed Disclaimer

References

    1. Erratum. J Am Soc Nephrol 25: 1130, 2014
    1. Linton JD: Research: All journals need to correct errors. Nature 504: 33, 2013 - PubMed
    1. Maduell F, Moreso F, Pons M, Ramos R, Mora-Macià J, Carreras J, Soler J, Torres F, Campistol JM, Martinez-Castelao A, ESHOL Study Group : High-efficiency postdilution online hemodiafiltration reduces all-cause mortality in hemodialysis patients. J Am Soc Nephrol 24: 487–497, 2013 - PMC - PubMed
    1. Laupacis A, Sackett DL, Roberts RS: An assessment of clinically useful measures of the consequences of treatment. N Engl J Med 318: 1728–1733, 1988 - PubMed
    1. Scott I: Interpreting risks and ratios in therapy trials. Aust Prescr 31: 12–16, 2008