Journal article
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: II. How to Use an Article About Therapy or Prevention B. What Were the Results and Will They Help Me in Caring for My Patients?
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.271(1), pp.59-63
01/05/1994
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1994.03510250075039
Abstract
CLINICAL SCENARIOYou are a general internist who is asked to see a 65-year-old man with controlled hypertension and a 6-month history of atrial fibrillation resistant to cardioversion. Although he has no evidence for valvular or coronary heart disease, the family physician who referred him to you wants your advice on whether the benefits of long-term anticoagulants (to reduce the risk of embolic stroke) outweigh their risks (of hemorrhage from anticoagulant therapy). The patient shares these concerns and doesn't want to receive a treatment that would do more harm than good. You know that there have been randomized trials of warfarin for nonvalvular atrial fibrillation and decide that you'd better review one of them.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: II. How to Use an Article About Therapy or Prevention B. What Were the Results and Will They Help Me in Caring for My Patients?
- Creators
- Gordon H Guyatt - McMaster-CarrDavid L Sackett - McMaster-CarrDeborah J Cook - McMaster-CarrEric Bass - McMaster-CarrPatrick Brill-Edwards - McMaster-CarrGeorge Browman - McMaster-CarrMichael Farkouh - McMaster-CarrHertzel Gerstein - McMaster-CarrBrian Haynes - McMaster-CarrRobert Hayward - McMaster-CarrAnne Holbrook - McMaster-CarrRoman Jaeschke - McMaster-CarrElizabeth Juniper - McMaster-CarrAndreas Laupacis - McMaster-CarrHui Lee - McMaster-CarrMitchell Levine - McMaster-CarrVirginia Moyer - McMaster-CarrJim Nishikawa - McMaster-CarrAndrew Oxman - McMaster-CarrAmeen Patel - McMaster-CarrJohn Philbrick - McMaster-CarrW. Scott Richardson - McMaster-CarrStephane Sauve - McMaster-CarrJack Sinclair - McMaster-CarrK.S Trout - McMaster-CarrPeter Tugwell - McMaster-CarrSean Tunis - McMaster-CarrStephen Walter - McMaster-CarrJohn Williams - McMaster-CarrMark Wilson - McMaster-CarrEvidence-Based Medicine Working Group
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.271(1), pp.59-63
- DOI
- 10.1001/jama.1994.03510250075039
- ISSN
- 0098-7484
- eISSN
- 1538-3598
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/05/1994
- Academic Unit
- General Internal Medicine; Medicine Administration; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984359910802771
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