Journal article
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: XIII. How to Use an Article on Economic Analysis of Clinical Practice A. Are the Results of the Study Valid?
Abstract
CLINICAL SCENARIO You are a general internist on the staff of a large community hospital. Your chief of medicine knows of your interest in evidence-based medicine, and she asks you to help her solve a problem. The hospital's pharmacy and therapeutics committee has been trying to decide on formulary guidelines for the use of streptokinase or tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Members …
Authors
Drummond MF; Richardson WS; O'Brien BJ; Levine M; Heyland D
Journal
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 277, No. 19, pp. 1552–1557
Publisher
American Medical Association (AMA)
Publication Date
May 21, 1997
DOI
10.1001/jama.1997.03540430064035
ISSN
0098-7484