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VIEWPOINT
NICE: guessing is not guidance
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Professor Poole-Wilson, Cardiac Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine, Imperial College, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, UK;
p.poole-wilson{at}ic.ac.uk
A preliminary assessment of the extent to which the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has achieved its goals within cardiovascular medicine is presented. NICE is a government sponsored agency operating in the UK which attempts to assess the value of medical therapies, devices, and surgery for a wide range of medical and surgical problems. Its recommendations determine whether a particular therapy can be adopted in the National Health Service.
Keywords: National Institute for Clinical Evidence; stents; implantable cardioverter-defibrillators; glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors
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