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A landmark randomized health care trial: the Burlington trial of the nurse practitioner

2009; Elsevier BV; Volume: 62; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.01.001

1878-5921

David L. Sackett,

Case Reports on Hematomas

The year was 1970. The Americans invaded Cambodia; Biafra capitulated; the Beatles stopped and Queen started; the US Food and drug Administration (FDA) approved lithium for manic depression and warned that birth control pills might cause blood clots; a damaged Apollo 13 landed safely; Edward Heath became the UK prime minister and Salvador Allende the Chilean president; Charles de Gaulle, Bertrand Russell, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix died and Queen Latifah, Andre Agassi, Alan Shearer, and Matthew Pinsent were born; Quebec separatists kidnapped and killed a cabinet minister; Baader escaped jail with help from Meinhof; Alexander Solzhenitsyn won a Nobel Prize; Ohio National Guardsmen killed four students at Kent State University; 28 thalidomide victims were compensated; child-proof medicine caps were introduced; a 1st class US postage stamp cost 6 cents; the US median household income (in 2007 dollar value) was $8,734, and Mick Jagger was fined 200 pounds (in 1970 sterling value) for possession of cannabis; the personal computer (PC) would not be introduced for another decade; and the editors of this journal were 19 and 26 years old.