At 10:50 PM 4/1/98 +0100, you wrote:
>For example a well known trial of anticoagulation in AF excluded the vast
>majority of subjects on the basis that they rather inconveniently couldn't
>be relied upon to take their pills regularly, drank too much, fell over,
>were deaf, or generally were far too unpredictable to be included in such a
>"proper" study of scientific significance.
>
>
>Stephen Miell
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>Tel & Fax: 01626 332752
>
Don't know about EBM but if I needed to take a medication I'd like to know
what will happen if I do take it and comply with any additional advice, not
what will happen on average to those who are recommended it. These two can
be vastly different. They both have some value as information, but the
former is the information I'd be most interested in as an only mildly
demented patient!
Julian
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