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Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: X. How to Use an Article Reporting Variations in the Outcomes of Health Services

Abstract

CASE SCENARIO Your patient, a 78-year-old retired internist, has been complaining of increasing symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia. He has long-standing hypertension and coronary artery disease, with remote anterolateral myocardial infarction and bypass surgery 10 years ago. His left ventricular ejection fraction was recently documented at 20%, and he has been started on an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor. Rectal examination …

Authors

Naylor CD; Guyatt GH; Bass E; Gerstein H; Heyland D; Holbrook A; Moyer V; Newman T; Oxman A; Richardson WS

Journal

JAMA, Vol. 275, No. 7, pp. 554–558

Publisher

American Medical Association (AMA)

Publication Date

February 21, 1996

DOI

10.1001/jama.1996.03530310060034

ISSN

0098-7484