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From the Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology
Assessment A Clinical and Economic Review of HMG-CoA Reductase
Inhibitors in Coronary Heart Disease, and HMG-CoA Reductase
Inhibitors: A Review of Published Clinical Trials and
Pharmacoeconomic Evaluations
The URL for the login page is
http://www.ccohta.ca/newweb/pubapp/publogin.cfm?PageType=Pubs
(watch the wrap on the URL)
Registration is required but is free. You can locate these two
documents by entering "inhibitors" in the title search box.
Also from CCOHTA you can find
An Economic Analysis of Sumatriptan for Acute Migraine, and
Meta-analysis and economic evaluation of sumatriptan for migraine
(using "migraine" in the title search box).
Bandolier has a review of statins at
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/band47/b47-2.html
and of triptans ("Making Sense Of Migraine") at
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/Bandolier/band59/b59-2.html
The Therapeutics Letter (http://www.ti.ubc.ca/pages/letter.html)
has short analyses of drugs for lipid-lowering, the treatment of
hypertension, and the treatment of migraine.
You might find more documents of interest by following links on
http://www.rupert.net/~rtrinkle/dur.htm
Randy Trinkle, BScPharm BA
Clinical Pharmacist
Prince Rupert Regional Hospital
Prince Rupert, BC
Canada
Health Science Links:
http://www.rupert.net/~rtrinkle
"Randy Trinkle" <rtrinkle@gumby.citytel.net>
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