da Costa, Bruno R; Rutjes, Anne W S; Johnston, Bradley C; Reichenbach, Stephan; Nüesch, Eveline; Tonia, Thomy; Gemperli, Armin; Guyatt, Gordon H; Jüni, Peter (2012). Methods to convert continuous outcomes into odds ratios of treatment response and numbers needed to treat: meta-epidemiological study. International journal of epidemiology, 41(5), pp. 1445-1459. Oxford: Oxford University Press 10.1093/ije/dys124
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Clinicians find standardized mean differences (SMDs) calculated from continuous outcomes difficult to interpret. Our objective was to determine the performance of methods in converting SMDs or means to odds ratios of treatment response and numbers needed to treat (NNTs) as more intuitive measures of treatment effect.