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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Evidence-Based Medicine Requires Appropriate Clinical Context - re: Deep VeingThrombosis (excerpt)



"What if a patient—after diagnostic tests have been performed and there is no more certainty to obtain—still has a 1 in 100 chance of having venous thromboembolism (VTE)? Should the patient's physician engage the patient in a discussion of the harm and benefit of anticoagulation? What if the chance of VTE was 1 in 20? Or even 1 in 10?"

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