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Differentiating the efficacy of 5-HT(1B/1D) agonists.
Headache - 1 Mar 2001
Sheftell F D, Fox A W, Weeks R E, Tepper S J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To examine, for a set of published clinical trials of serotonin (5-HT(1B/1D)) agonists as acute treatments for migraine, whether transformation of efficacy data into therapeutic gain (TG) or number needed to treat (NNT) is useful. BACKGROUND: Pivotal clinical trials of 5-HT(1B/1D) agonists in migraine use a primary end point of change in pain score from 3 or 2 to 1 or 0. Placebo response rates among...
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