Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

Authors:
  • LDLeonila F. Dans
    Leonila F. Dans
  • GGGordon H. Guyatt
    Gordon H. Guyatt
  • SRScott Richardson
    Scott Richardson
  • FGfor the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group
    for the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group

Abstract
You are the attending physician on duty when a poor, 45-year-old man presents to the emergency department of a general hospital in the Philippines. He has sev