Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Trials of Clopidogrel

The pharmacy student I'd helped a couple of weeks ago was back again with another challenging question. This time he had an elderly patient with atrial fibrillation and was looking for information on stroke prevention. Specifically, he was looking for trials of Clopidogrel where it was not used in conjunction with the anticoagulants aspirin or warfarin (a drug that’s also used as a rat poison – presumably in less rigorously monitored doses). He had been looking in the International Pharmaceutical Abstracts database, but was not having a great deal of success.

We worked together to create the search below, choosing subheadings he thought would be most appropriate based on the results he was looking for.



While there didn’t seem to be a study that exactly matched his criteria in the 28 we looked at, he did find a couple of studies that seemed as if they would be useful and that might lead to further studies.

I’m hoping to play around with some of the limits and see what difference they make to the results.

1 Comments:

Blogger Dean Giustini said...

Duncan,

I noticed that you are a very visual person, and adept at creating visuals. You'll have to show me how you got this screenshot. Your work on the Langara WebCT had that visual aspect also.

Perhaps I can enlist you for more customized visuals for the wiki.

And thanks for highlighting IPA. Teresa Lee will talk about this too on October 10th, Dean

12:58 p.m.  

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