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ποΈ 16 March 2020
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0:32.0 | any disease. |
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0:37.0 | Now let's head to the show. |
0:39.2 | Hi, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Dr. Rucho. This is Dr. Rucho, joined by Aaron Ryan, |
0:46.0 | per the usual for our listener question episodes. And we're going to jump in on listener |
0:51.8 | questions in just one second. I do want to share one or two interesting things that I've been writing about in our clinicians' |
0:59.4 | newsletter that I think are worth to mention. |
1:02.9 | The first, and pardon me here while I adjust my sit-to-stand desk, so I get a good audio input. |
1:11.9 | The first comes from the American College of Gastroenterology. |
1:16.6 | It's a paper from 2014, so it's a little bit old, but what's novel about this paper, |
1:21.7 | what's important by this paper, is it provides the most up-to-date comparison for treatment effect between refaxamine and probiotics for IBS. |
1:37.3 | Now, they compare the effectiveness of these treatments through a measure known as number needed to treat, or NNT. |
1:46.0 | It's important for us all to keep in mind that we want to, in the research setting, convert I'm feeling better into |
1:52.9 | a numeric score so that we can compare between different studies the amplitude of I'm feeling better. |
2:01.3 | And that's in part what the number needed to treat is attempting to do. |
2:05.9 | Specifically, the number needed to treat is how many patients need to be given a therapy |
2:11.6 | before one of them will have the response. |
2:15.7 | So this paper entitled American College of Gastroenterology monograph on the management |
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