The Octopus Study: Rationale and design of two randomized trials on medical effectiveness, safety, and cost-effectiveness of bypass surgery on the beating heart

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 595-609

  Van Dijk, Diederik ^a   Nierich, Arno P ^a   Eefting, Frank D ^a,b   Buskens, Erik ^b   Nathoe, Hendrik M ^a   Jansen, Erik W L ^a   Borst, Cornelius ^a   Knape, Johannes T A ^a   Bredée, Johan J ^a   De Medina, Etienne O Robles ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^b   Diephuis, Jan C ^a   De Jaegere, Peter P Th ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology ^*  (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular events; Intracoronary stent implantation; Off pump CABG; Randomized clinical trial

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ETHICS; HEART BEAT; HEART SURGERY; IMPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OCTOPUS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; REVASCULARIZATION; SAFETY; STENT;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK; STENTS;

EID: 0034527867     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-2456(00)00103-3     Document Type: Article

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