Thursday September 9, 1999 - Question 6

Dr. Jones calls the poison center and asks how a patient that just ingested a new medication called Baba should be treated.  Micromedex® and the poison textbooks available have no information.  You do a literature search using MEDLINE® and find an abstract of an article published about the management of 5 patients who have overdosed on Baba.  Which of the following is true?

A. Abstracts found in MEDLINE® are always accurate.

B. All recommendations for management can be based upon the abstract of an article.

C. Not all abstracts are accurate and the full article should be obtained whenever possible prior to making patient care decisions.

D. Every original research article, case report, and review article published in medical and pharmacy journals can be found by performing a MEDLINE® search.

E. MEDLINE® only indexes/abstracts American medical journals.
 

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