Thursday, April 17, 2008

Medicine's Secret Stat

Medicine's Secret Stat - TIME:

"Since public-health officials want to save lives, they focus on the thousands and avoid the NNT. Since pharmaceutical companies are in business to sell drugs, they do the same. Those two forces have kept NNT from being a big part of medical education. We could all help change that by doing nothing more than asking for the number up front the next time we're handed a prescription."

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