Pragmatic randomised trials using routine electronic health records: putting them to the test

What to prescribe for a patient in general practice when the choice of treatments has a limited evidence base? Tjeerd-Pieter van Staa and colleagues argue that using electronic health records to enter patients into randomised trials of treatments in real time could provide the answer

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Published inBMJ Vol. 344; no. feb07 1; p. e55
Main Authors Staa, Tjeerd-Pieter van, Goldacre, Ben, Gulliford, Martin, Cassell, Jackie, Pirmohamed, Munir, Taweel, Adel, Delaney, Brendan, Smeeth, Liam
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England British Medical Journal Publishing Group 07.02.2012
BMJ Publishing Group LTD
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
Subjects
Analysis
Antibiotics
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Clinical medicine
Clinical trials
Consent
Councils
Electronic Health Records
Electronic medical records
Evidence-based medicine
Feasibility studies
General Practice / Family Medicine
Hospitals
Humans
Information Management
Intervention
Medical research
Patient Selection
Patients
Physicians
R&D
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic - methods
Research & development
Stroke
United Kingdom
United Kingdom > UK
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Summary:What to prescribe for a patient in general practice when the choice of treatments has a limited evidence base? Tjeerd-Pieter van Staa and colleagues argue that using electronic health records to enter patients into randomised trials of treatments in real time could provide the answer
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ISSN:0959-8138
1468-5833
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DOI:10.1136/bmj.e55