title: Number needed to treat from absolute risk and incidence rate: how to make apples and oranges comparable?
authors.affiliation: Centre d'Investigations Cliniques-INSERM CHU de Nancy, Institut Lorrain du Cœur et des Vaisseaux Louis Mathieu, 4 Rue du Morvan, 54500 Vandoeuvre lès Nancy, France; CNRS, UMR5558, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Equipe Biotatistique Santé, F-69100 Villeurbanne, France. Electronic address: nicolas_girerd@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Girerd
authors.affiliation: CNRS, UMR5558, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Equipe Biostatistiques Santé, F-69100 Villeurbanne, France; Department of Biostatistics, Hospices Civils de Lyon, F-69003 Lyon, France.
authors.forename: Muriel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rabilloud
authors.affiliation: Centre d'Investigations Cliniques-INSERM CHU de Nancy, Institut Lorrain du Cœur et des Vaisseaux Louis Mathieu, 4 Rue du Morvan, 54500 Vandoeuvre lès Nancy, France.
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Duarte
authors.affiliation: CNRS, UMR5558, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Equipe Biostatistiques Santé, F-69100 Villeurbanne, France; Department of Biostatistics, Hospices Civils de Lyon, F-69003 Lyon, France.
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D015340:Epidemiologic Research Design; D006801:Humans; D061366:Numbers Needed To Treat; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic