What Are the Odds That Your Medication Will Help You Get Better? – STAT News

Read article - Quotes H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article that examines if drugs and other treatments are likely to help patients get better. "People at higher risk of an adverse outcome tend to benefit more [from an intervention], so the NNT [number needed to treat] is always lower" than in lower-risk people, says Welch.