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How to appraise an article on therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

James P. Warner  and
Robert Blizard
James P. Warner*
Affiliation:
Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2QG
Robert Blizard
Affiliation:
Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2QG
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

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This first of a series of articles intended to guide clinicians through the evidence-based process assesses the published evidence for drug therapy in Alzheimer's disease. A Medline search identified a randomised, controlled trial of donepezil. Although this trial appeared to have a reasonably sound methodology, we had some doubts about the treatment effect and applicability of the results.

Type
Evidence-based psychiatry
Information
Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , June 1998 , pp. 342 - 344
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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