Clerkship Program - Influenza Case Study

Step 3: Assess the Evidence

Criteria	Yes	No
Was the assignment of patients to treatment randomized?
Was the follow-up of patients sufficiently long and complete?
Were the patients analyzed in the groups to which they were randomized?
Were the patients and clinicians kept blind to treatment?
Were the groups treated equally, apart from the experimental therapy?
Were the groups similar at the start of the trial?

	Outcome Present	Outcome Absent
Treatment	a	b
Control	c	d

Since the treatment in this study reduces the possibility of a bad event:

Calculate the EER:

Calculate the CER:

Calculate the RR:

Calculate the RRR:

Calculate the ARR:

Calculate the NNT: