title: Clinical management. Where medicine meets management. Random factors.
abstract: Care is required when applying the findings from randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews of RCTs or national 'evidence-based' guidelines to the broad groups of patients in primary care. N-of-1 trials offer a useful approach to tailor medication and improve the quality of a treatment decision in an individual patient. The length of the relationship with patients makes follow-up important.
authors.affiliation: Public Health and Primary Care Division, Hull University.
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Summerton
mesh_terms: D004358:Drug Therapy; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom