The phrase "as number needed" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey a concept related to the quantity required for a specific purpose, but it lacks clarity and proper grammatical structure.
Example: "The resources will be allocated as number needed to ensure efficiency in the project."
Alternatives: "as required" or "as necessary".
When statistics were presented as number needed to treat — 100 people treated to prevent one case of the disease — they were least persuasive of all.
From a practical perspective, measures such as number needed to treat (NNT), which rely on the absolute rather than relative risk reduction, are more informative [ 79- 82].
We expressed summary estimates of dichotomous outcomes as number needed to treat for an additional beneficial outcome (NNTB) for statistically significant findings, when appropriate with 95% CI.
The student appraised the importance of the outcomes and translated them into clinically meaningful summary statistics, such as number needed to treat, absolute risk reduction and relative risk reduction, and interpretation of confidence intervals.
The Work Disability Prognosis filter for Research showed a comprehensiveness of 90%95%5% CI 86 to 94) and efficiency expressed more user-friendly as Number Needed to Read=20 (95% CI 17 to 34).
Parameters such as number needed to treat (NNT) and number needed to harm (NNH) have been proposed to give the clinician some direction of the benefit and harm of adjuvant therapies.
VE results were also expressed as numbers needed to vaccinate per IPD case prevented.
Other methods for interpreting the significance of change, such as numbers needed to treat, may be of more clinical value.
The main outcome variable, macrosomia, will be assessed by calculating rates in the two groups, relative risks and 95% confidence intervals as well as numbers needed to treat.
This may not be feasible as numbers needed would exceed 46,000 women in order to show a 1 per 1000 difference in late pregnancy stillbirth.
The main outcome variable, 'bad neonatal outcome', will be assessed by calculating rates in the two groups, relative risks and 95% confidence intervals as well as numbers needed to treat.
