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Stewart and colleagues wonder why we did not include the study by Gattis et al¹ in our review.² The reason was that because the intervention was delivered exclusively by a clinical pharmacist and our focus was on a multidisciplinary intervention, the study was not eligible. Stewart and colleagues also question our excluding the study by Stewart et al.³ Stewart et al had published a very similar article in 1998, and we suspected considerable overlap in populations. Stewart and colleagues failed to answer our queries. Because the 1998 publication⁴ included a more comprehensive presentation of the data, we restricted ourselves to that report of the data.

We did not include the other studies that Stewart and colleagues cite in their letter because they were published after we submitted our manuscript. It is encouraging that, when combined in the meta-analyses, the pooled results now suggest a benefit in reduced mortality. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Femida H. Gwadry-Sridhar, PhD(C); Virginia Flintoft, MSc; Douglas S. Lee, MD; Gordon H. Guyatt, MD

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