Uncertainties in the Absence of Data: Use of Pravastatin in Young Children

Author(s)
Shifrin, Anna
Sanghavi, Darshak M.
Keywords
Pravastatin
Child
Informed Consent
Disclosure
Cardiology
Pediatrics
Preventive Medicine

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/788768
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http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/peds_cardiology/19
http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2008/11/pdf/pfor1-0811.pdf
Abstract
Learning Objective: Understand that, when risks and benefits of prevention are not fully known, physicians must provide patient decision makers with existing information such as the Number Needed to Treat and the Number Needed to Harm and leave the decision to those whom the intervention will affect.
Date
2008-11-01
Type
text
Identifier
oai:escholarship.umassmed.edu:peds_cardiology-1017
http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/peds_cardiology/19
http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2008/11/pdf/pfor1-0811.pdf
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Citation: Shifrin A, Sanghavi D. Uncertainties in the Absence of Data: Use of Pravastatin in Young Children. Virtual Mentor. 2008; 10(11):747-749. <a href="http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2008/11/pfor1-0811.html">Link to article on publisher's website</a>
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