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| B S AlperSummaryAffiliation: University of Missouri Country: USA Publications
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Treatment of postherpetic neuralgia: a systematic review of the literatureBrian S Alper
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri Columbia School of Medicine, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
J Fam Pract 51:121-8. 2002..We wanted to determine whether any treatment had been shown to reduce pain or disability from postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), a common sequela of herpes zoster in elderly patients...- Answering family physicians' clinical questions using electronic medical databasesB S Alper
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri Columbia, MU School of Medicine, Columbia, MO, 65212, USA
J Fam Pract 50:960-5. 2001..We studied the ability of electronic medical databases to provide adequate answers to the clinical questions of family physicians... - Intention-to-treat analysis: who is in? Who is out?Robin L Kruse
Department of Family Community Medicine, University of Missouri Columbia School of Medicine, M228 Medical Sciences Bldg, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
J Fam Pract 51:969-71. 2002..Nineteen of the 92 studies excluded more than 5% of randomized participants, and 10 excluded more than 10%. There is considerable variation in how researchers define and apply the principle of intention to treat... - Urinary tract infection in childrenBrian S Alper
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA
Am Fam Physician 72:2483-8. 2005..Oral antibiotics are as effective as parenteral therapy in randomized trials. The optimal duration of antibiotic therapy has not been established, but one-day therapies have been shown to be inferior to longer treatment courses... - Response to proposal for use of SORT evidence levelsBrian S Alper
Am Fam Physician 70:2269; author reply 2269-70. 2004