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Further to Dave Sackett's excellent suggestion, you may be interested to know that full-text of the paper he cites is available at: http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/01may97/numeric.htm Other suggestions include; http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-152/0351.htm http://194.216.217.166//archive/7105/7105ed.htm http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk:80/Bandolier/band36/b36-2.html http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk:80/Bandolier/band50/b50-8.html http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk:80/Bandolier/band18/b18-9.html and one that DS probably omits through modesty: http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/nnt.html > perhaps an efficient way to do this would be to track down: > > Using numerical results from systematic reviews in clinical practice. AU: > McQuay-HJ; Moore-RA SO: Ann-Intern-Med. 1997 May 1; 126(9): 712-20 > > and work backwards from their bibliography to satisfaction of exhaustion. > > I wish to know all there about NNT. Pointers in the right direction will be > > appreciated. > > --Sudheer Manthri > > > > Sudheer Manthri MBBS MS FRCS > > [log in to unmask] > > [log in to unmask] > > [log in to unmask] > > [log in to unmask] Andrew Booth BA MSc Dip Lib ALA Director of Information Resources School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR) Regent Court 30 Regent Street SHEFFIELD S1 4DA Tel: 0114 222 5420 or 5214 Fax: 0114 272 4095 WWW: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/scharr/ir/andrew.html [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%