TY - JOUR T1 - NICE, drug-eluting stents and the limits of trial data JF - Heart JO - Heart SP - 505 LP - 506 VL - 95 IS - 6 AU - R Mohindra Y1 - 2009/03/15 UR - http://heart.bmj.com/content/95/6/505.3.abstract N2 - To the editor: Dr de Belder asks the question how to determine the worth of drug-eluting stents?1 The answer to this question does not lie in the trial data. The function of trial data is to establish the extent of clinical-effectiveness to a given degree of certainty. In this context, while a trend may generate a hypothesis it does not establish clinical-effectiveness.There is no balance between clinical- … ER -