Pragmatic randomised trials using routine electronic health records: putting them to the test.

Staa, Tjeerd-Pieter van; Goldacre, Ben; Gulliford, Martin; Cassell, Jackie; Pirmohamed, Munir; Taweel, Adel; Delaney, Brendan; Smeeth, Liam · BMJ · 2012

rct · Level II

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Abstract

What to prescribe for a patient in general practice when the choice of treatments has a limited evidence base? <b>Tjeerd-Pieter van Staa and colleagues</b> argue that using electronic health records to enter patients into randomised trials of treatments in real time could provide the answer

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