A Cochrane review found topical diclofenac helps a meaningful minority with o…
A Cochrane review found topical diclofenac helps a meaningful minority with osteoarthritis — about 6 in 10 had much-reduced pain versus 5 in 10 on placebo gel over 6-12 weeks (number-needed-to-treat about 10) — with mostly mild local skin reactions and few of the systemic risks o
Advisory — derived radar signal (confidence + source fields), not an authoritative classification.
- Type
- evidence-claim
- Domain
- knee-osteoarthritis
- Grade
- A
- License
- proprietary-research-use
- instance
- m324
- domain_slug
- knee-osteoarthritis
- pubmed_ids
- 27103611
- evidence_grade
- A
- tags
- topical-NSAID,systematic-review,what-works,NNT,R1-verified-20260601
- source_ids
- PMID-27103611
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