Progress: Measuring the Benefit

Progress: measuring the benefit. Re: The numbers needed to treat for neurological disorders.

BACKGROUND Numerous therapeutic interventions have been developed in the neurosciences. Clinicians need summary measures about efficacy of therapies that derive from the best available evidence, and that can be readily extrapolated to clinical practice. The number needed to treat (NNT) is intuitive and clinically applicable. We provide clinicians with a single source that summarizes important t...

Progress in clinical neurosciences: measuring the benefit of therapies for neurological disorders.

BACKGROUND Clinicians in the neurosciences need to interpret and apply a growing body of evidence about therapy. METHODS Using a clinical scenario about painful diabetic neuropathy and evidence about one treatment option, we review the advantages, limitations, and the clinical interpretation of commonly reported measures of effectiveness, emphasizing their application to the care of individua...

Measuring Economic Progress

Economists have been inquiring into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations for centuries,1 but the regular and systematic construction of official quantitative measures of relative economic progress is a phenomenon of recent decades. A key role in this transformation was played by Colin Clark, who held that ‘[c]omparisons of economic welfare between one community and another, one econom...

Measuring Global Educational Progress

Newsletter on Measuring the Progress of Societies