The Number Needed to Prescribe — What Would It Take to Expand Access to Buprenorphine?

Abstract

The Number Needed to Prescribe — What Would It Take to Expand Access to Buprenorphine? (Perspective, N Engl J Med 2021;384:1783-1784). In the final paragraph (page 1784), the first sentence should have read, “The number needed to treat with buprenorphine to prevent one death in the year after overdose is 52.6 — lower than the number needed to treat for nearly any medication that we have embraced without hesitation,” rather than “The number needed to treat to prevent one death from OUD with buprenorphine is less than three.” The article is correct at NEJM.org.