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: Prognosis and serum creatinin levels in acute renal at the time of nephrology
consultation: an observational cohort study
First authors
Journal
A. VALIDITY: Are the results of this single preventive or therapeutic trial valid?
Was the assignment of patients to treatments
randomised?
and was the randomisation list concealed?
Yes.
No.
No.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
Occurrence of diabetic
neuropathy
Usual Insulin
Control Event
Rate
CER
9.6%
Relative Risk
Reduction
RRR
CER - EER
CER
Intensive
Insulin
Experimental
Event Rate
EER
2.8%
9.6% - 2.8%
71%
9.6%
Absolute Risk
Reduction
ARR
CER - EER
Number Needed
to Treat
NNT
1/ARR
9.6% - 2.8% =
6.8%
(4.3% to 9.3%)
1/6.8% = 15
pts,
(11 to 23)
B. IMPORTANCE
Sample calculations:
95% Confidence Interval (CI) on an NNT = 1 / (limits on the CI of its ARR) =
Your calculations:
CER
EER
Relative Risk
Reduction (RRR)
CER - EER
CER
Absolute Risk
Reduction (ARR)
CER - EER
Number Needed to
Treat (NNT)
1/ARR
2. Are your patients values and preferences satisfied by the regimen and its
consequences?
Do your patient and you have a clear
assessment of their values and
preferences?
Additional Notes:
Control
Event
Rate
(CER)
.05
.10
.20
.30
.40
.503
.70
.90
0.9
2091
110
61
46
40
38
44
1014
0.85
139
73
40
30
26
25
28
64
0.8
104
54
30
22
19
18
20
46
0.6
52
27
14
10
9
8
9
18
0.55
46
24
13
9
8
7
7
15
0.5
412
21
11
8
7
6
6
125
Can you apply this valid, important evidence from a systematic review in caring for
your patient?
Do these results apply to your patient?
Is your patient so different from those
in the overview that its results cant
help you?
How great would the potential benefit
of therapy actually be for your
individual patient?
Method I: In the table on page 1, find
the intersection of the closest odds
ratio from the overview and the CER
that is closest to your patients
expected event rate if they received
the control treatment (PEER):
Method II: To calculate the NNT for
any OR and PEER:
___1 - {PEER x (1 OR)}____
NNT =
(1 - PEER) x PEER x (1 OR)
Are your patients values and preferences satisfied by the regimen and its
consequences?
Do your patient and you have a clear
assessment of their values and
preferences?
Are they met by this regimen and its
consequences?
Should you believe apparent qualitative differences in the efficacy of therapy in some
subgroups of patients? Only if you can say yes to all of the following:
1. Do they really make biologic and clinical sense?
2. Is the qualitative difference both clinically (beneficial for some but useless or harmful for
others) and statistically significant?
3. Was this difference hypothesised before the study began (rather than the product of
dredging the data), and has it been confirmed in other, independent studies?
4. Was this one of just a few subgroup analyses carried out in this study?
Additional Notes:
Totals
Absent
Positive
Negative
Totals
a+c
a+b
c+d
b+d 1770
a+b+c+d
Sensitivity = a/(a+c) =
Specificity = d/(b+d) =
Likelihood Ratio for a positive test result = LR+=sens/(1-spec)=
Likelihood Ratio for a negative test result=LR-=(1-sens)/spec=
Positive Predictive Value = a/(a+b) =
Negative Predictive Value = d/(c+d) =
Pre-test Probability (prevalence) = (a+c)/(a+b+c+d) =
Pre-test-odds = prevalence/(1-prevalence) =
Post-test odds = Pre-test odds x Likelihood Ratio =
Post-test Probability = Post-test odds/(Post-test odds + 1) =
Additional Notes:
Your calculation:
SE: ____________
95% CI:
Can you apply this valid, important evidence about prognosis in caring for your
patient?
1. Were the study patients similar to your
own?
2. Will this evidence make a clinically
important impact on your conclusions
about what to offer or tell your patient?
Additional Notes: