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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