PubMed Central, : RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2015 July; 6(3): e0033. ISSN: 2076-9172Published online 2015 July 30. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10218.

Table 1.

Comparison Between NNT Computed from the Simple Proportion of Liver Failure with That from More Proper Cumulative Incidence Based on the Kaplan–Meier Approach for the Hypothetical Three-arm 1-Year Trial of 3,000 Patients with the (Imaginary) Iron Overload Syndrome.

			Using Kaplan–Meier Approach		Using Simple Proportion
Treatment	Number of Patients	Number with Liver Failure	1-Year Cumulative Incidence	Number Needed to Treat	1-Year Cumulative Incidence	Number Needed to Treat
Placebo	1000	324	0.454		0.324

Fedom	1000	230	0.286	6	0.230	11

Feclad	1000	238	0.441	77	0.238	12

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2015 July; 6(3): e0033. ISSN: 2076-9172

Published online 2015 July 30. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10218