PAIN
Volume 151, Issue 3 , Pages 592-597, December 2010

Numbers-needed-to-treat analyses – Do timing, dropouts, and outcome matter? Pooled analysis of two randomized, placebo-controlled chronic low back pain trials

  • R. Andrew Moore

      Affiliations

    • Pain Research and Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Pain Research and Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Level 6 West Wing, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK. Tel.: +44 1865 231512; fax: +44 1865 234539.
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  • Steven S. Smugar

      Affiliations

    • Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ, USA
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  • Hongwei Wang

      Affiliations

    • Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • Paul M. Peloso

      Affiliations

    • Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • Arnold Gammaitoni

      Affiliations

    • Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ, USA

Received 29 October 2009; received in revised form 14 June 2010; accepted 14 July 2010. published online 01 September 2010.

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PII: S0304-3959(10)00426-4

doi:10.1016/j.pain.2010.07.013

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Volume 151, Issue 3 , Pages 592-597, December 2010

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