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Evidence‐based medicine is an important way of allowing the reader to judge clearly whether a treatment has a place in a particular condition, and to see what faults were present in the various trials of its efficacy. It is often rather unsettling to read in a meta‐analysis or in a systematic literature review how poorly constructed many trials are. The authors from Minneapolis have carried out such a study into the use of trazodone in male erectile dysfunction. They draw attention to the poor quality of many of the trials and give their reasons for this observation. They suggest that trazodone may be helpful in men with this condition, possibly at higher doses and in men with psychogenic erectile dysfunction. ## OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy and safety of trazodone in the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED) in a meta‐analysis. ## METHODS The data sources used were Medline and the Cochrane Library databases (January 1966 to May 2002), bibliographies of retrieved articles and review articles, and conference proceedings and abstracts. Trials were eligible for inclusion in the review if they included men with ED, compared trazodone with a control, were randomized, of ≥ 7 days

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Author

H.A. Fink; R. MacDonald; I.R. Rutks; T.J. Wilt

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1464-4096)

Published

2003

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)