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February 7, 2012BMJ174 citationsOpen Access

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

TSTjeerd van StaaManchester Academic Health Science CentreBGBen GoldacreAngkor Hospital for ChildrenMGMartin GullifordNational Health Service

Key Points

  • The study aims to determine how randomized trials using electronic health records can inform treatment choices in general practice.
  • Conducted randomized trials using electronic health records for patient enrollment in real time.
  • Evaluated treatment options with limited evidence in general practice settings.
  • Potential to enhance treatment prescribing based on real-time data.
  • Improved understanding of effective treatment options in routine care.

Abstract

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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Staa et al. (2012) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0e1c22f8c10024cd27a3e6https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e55
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