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The use, misuse and abuse of dabigatran
Author(s) -
Attia John R,
Pearce Robert
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja12.10729
Subject(s) - biostatistics , medicine , clinical epidemiology , epidemiology , pharmacy , library science , family medicine , computer science , pathology
The tale of dabigatran sounds some cautionary notes about proper critical appraisal of new randomised controlled trials,care in deciding on the generalisability of results, judicious screening of patients and lessons about the politics around increasingly lucrative drugs. The old lesson of caveat utilitor still holds: let the user beware!