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| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Herner, Saul Seaton, Terry L. Mertens, Marsha K. |
| Copyright Year | 2000 |
| Abstract | Editors' Note: This munth we continue the new feature STEPped Care: An Evidence-BtlSedApproach to Drug Therapy. These articles are designed to provide concise answers to the drug therapy questions that family physicians encounter in their daily practice. The format of the feature will follow the mnemunic STEP: safety (an analysis of adverse effects that patients and providers care about), tolerability (pooled drop-out rates from large clinical trials), effectiveness (how well the drugs work and in what patient population[sJ), and price (costs of drug, but also cost effectiveness of therapy). I Hence, the name STEPped Care. Since the informatics pioneers at McMtlSter University introduced evidence-btlSed medicine, Slawson and colleague!,4 have brought it to mainstream family medicine education and practice. This feature is designed to further the mission of searching for the truth in medical practice. Authors will provide information in a structured format that allows the readers to get to the meat of a therapeutic issue in a way that can help physicians (and patients) make informed decisions. The articles will discourage the use of disetlSe-oriented evidence (DOE) to make treatment decisions. Examples of DOEs include blood pressure lowering, decretlSes in hemoglobin Ale> and so on. We will include studies that are POEMs patientoriented evidence that matters (myocardial infarctions, pain, strokes, mortality, etc) with the goal of offering our patients the most practical, appropriate, and scientifically substantiated therapies. Number needed to treat to observe benefit in a single patient will also be included tIS a way of defining advantages in terms that are relatively easy to understand. 5,6 At times this effort will be frustrating. Even tIS vtlSt tIS the biomedical literature is, it does not always support what clinicians do. We will avoid making conclusions that are not |
| Starting Page | 55 |
| Ending Page | 65 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.3122/jabfm.13.1.55 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://jabfm.org/content/13/1/55.full.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 10682886 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.13.1.55 |
| Volume Number | 13 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Journal | The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
