TY - JOUR
T1 - Components of Effective Care
AU - Hawk, David L.
AU - Gordis, Leon
PY - 1974/3/14
Y1 - 1974/3/14
N2 - To the Editor: Initial concern has given way to grave misgivings about Gordis's article, “Effectiveness of Comprehensive-Care Programs in Preventing Rheumatic Fever”” (N Engl J Med 289:331–335, 1973). Comparability between the control group and the comprehensive-care group varies greatly in performance of throat cultures. “… in one recent year, 80 per cent of all cultures from Baltimore residents processed by the State Laboratory were from patients in comprehensive-care programs”” (p. 334). Since throat cultures for Group A beta-hemolytic streptococci and treatment of patients with positive cultures are the preventive measures for acute rheumatic fever, any group using this bacteriologic test ….
AB - To the Editor: Initial concern has given way to grave misgivings about Gordis's article, “Effectiveness of Comprehensive-Care Programs in Preventing Rheumatic Fever”” (N Engl J Med 289:331–335, 1973). Comparability between the control group and the comprehensive-care group varies greatly in performance of throat cultures. “… in one recent year, 80 per cent of all cultures from Baltimore residents processed by the State Laboratory were from patients in comprehensive-care programs”” (p. 334). Since throat cultures for Group A beta-hemolytic streptococci and treatment of patients with positive cultures are the preventive measures for acute rheumatic fever, any group using this bacteriologic test ….
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM197403142901128
DO - 10.1056/NEJM197403142901128
M3 - Letter
AN - SCOPUS:85023701303
VL - 290
SP - 634
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
SN - 0028-4793
IS - 11
ER -