Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: XIII. How to Use an Article on Economic Analysis of Clinical Practice B. What Are the Results and Will They Help Me in Caring for My Patients?

CLINICAL SCENARIO You recall from the first of our 2 articles1 concerning economic analysis of clinical practice that your chief of medicine has asked you to review relevant economic evidence from the literature and report to the hospital's pharmacy and therapeutics committee, which is trying to decide on formulary guidelines for the use of streptokinase and tissuetype plasminogen activator (t-PA) in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction …