Journal article
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: VII. How to Use a Clinical Decision Analysis B. What Are the Results and Will They Help Me in Caring for My Patients?
Abstract
YOU RECALL from the first of our two articles concerning clinical decision analysis1 that your patient is a middle-aged man with heart failure from an idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. You are trying to decide whether to recommend anticoagulation with warfarin to prevent systemic or pulmonary thromboembolism. Your literature search showed that no randomized clinical trials of warfarin for this use have been published. The search did discover a …
Authors
Richardson WS; Detsky AS; Guyatt G; Cook D; Gerstein H; Hayward R; Holbrook A; Jaeschke R; Juniper E; Levine M
Journal
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 273, No. 20, pp. 1610–1613
Publisher
American Medical Association (AMA)
Publication Date
May 24, 1995
DOI
10.1001/jama.1995.03520440064038
ISSN
0098-7484