Conflicting Data in the Literature: A True Dilemma

Abstract

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Lipnick

Buring

Hennekens

. Oral contraceptives and breast cancer. A prospective cohort study. JAMA 1986; 255: 58–61.

Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program. Reserpine and breast cancer. Lancet 1974; 2: 669–71.

Heinonen

Shapiro

Tuominen

. Reserpine use in relation to breast cancer. Lancet 1974; 2: 675–7.

Armstrong

Stevens

Doll

. Retrospective study of the association between use of rauwolfia derivatives and breast cancer in English women. Lancet 1974; 2: 672–5.

Horwitz

Feinstein

. Exclusion bias and the false relationship of reserpine and breast cancer. Arch Intern Med 1985; 145: 1873–5.

Durrer

Lie

Van Capelle

FJL

. Effect of sodium nitroprusside on mortality in acute myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med 1982; 306: 1121–8.

Cohn

Franciosa

Francis

. Effect of short-term infusion of sodium nitroprusside on mortality rate in acute myocardial infarction complicated by left ventricular failure. N Engl J Med 1982; 306: 1129–35.

Wilson

PWF

Garrison

Castelli

. Postmenopausal estrogen use, cigarette smoking, and cardiovascular morbidity in women over 50. The Framingham Study. N Engl J Med 1985; 313: 1038–43.

Stampfer

Willett

Colditz

. A prospective study of postmenopausal estrogen therapy and coronary heart disease. N Engl J Med 1985; 313: 1044–9.

10.

Passamani

. Nitroprusside in myocardial infarction (editorial). N Engl J Med 1982; 306: 1168–70.

11.

Bailar

. When research results are in conflict (editorial). N Engl J Med 1985; 313: 1080–1.

12.

Chalmers

Celano

Sacks

. Bias in treatment assignment in controlled clinical trials. N Engl J Med 1983; 309: 1358–61.