Evidence-Based Medicine

Abstract

erence ranges. We therefore suggest that the problems of standardising the reporting of results for anticoagulation clinics would be reduced by use of the proportion of patients achieving therapeutic international normalised ratios, the percentage of time for which the ratios are within the therapeutic reference range, and the mean (±1 SD) ratio.The model of care reported by Macgregor and colleagues may have a place in anticoagulant treatment, but their small observational study cannot draw the broad conclusion that ifwe "are willing to devolve management to pharmacists then good therapeutic control is achievable in the surgery."

Evidence-based medicine and general practice

“…Such neglect or disparagement runs the risk of alienating those who may otherwise embrace its principles. [10][11][12][13][14][15]…”