TY - JOUR
T1 - Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
T2 - VII. How to Use a Clinical Decision Analysis A. Are the Results of the Study Valid?
AU - Richardson, W. Scott
AU - Detsky, Allan S.
PY - 1995/4
Y1 - 1995/4
N2 - You are the attending physician on an inpatient service where a 51-year-old man is admitted with congestive heart failure of recent onset. You find he has a dilated cardiomyopathy, the cause of which remains unknown after a thorough evaluation. He is in sinus rhythm. The team's resident asks you whether the patient should be anticoagulated with warfarin, enough to keep his international normalized ratio from 2.0 to 3.0, in order to prevent systemic emboli, even though his echocardiogram does not show left ventricular thrombus. You are not sure about the evidence concerning this issue, so you admit your shared knowledge gap and resolve to search together for the relevant information.
AB - You are the attending physician on an inpatient service where a 51-year-old man is admitted with congestive heart failure of recent onset. You find he has a dilated cardiomyopathy, the cause of which remains unknown after a thorough evaluation. He is in sinus rhythm. The team's resident asks you whether the patient should be anticoagulated with warfarin, enough to keep his international normalized ratio from 2.0 to 3.0, in order to prevent systemic emboli, even though his echocardiogram does not show left ventricular thrombus. You are not sure about the evidence concerning this issue, so you admit your shared knowledge gap and resolve to search together for the relevant information.
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U2 - 10.1001/jama.1995.03520400062046
DO - 10.1001/jama.1995.03520400062046
M3 - Article
C2 - 7715043
AN - SCOPUS:0028954787
SN - 0098-7484
VL - 273
SP - 1292
EP - 1295
JO - JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
JF - JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
IS - 16
ER -