Intravenous estrogen is not proven effective for abnormal uterine bleeding: guidelines are based on flawed evidence
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A clinical appraisal and clinical application of: DeVore GR, Owens O, Kase N. treatment of dysfunctional uterine bleeding--a double This appraisal identifies significant statistical irregularities in the study. A reworking of the study's statistics lea different from that put forth by the authors of this paper: intravenous estrogen therapy is not, in fact, significantly more compared to placebo therapy for the cessation of acute abnormal uterine bleeding.
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