Testing our tests: Surrogate end points versus driving patient management and outcomes

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 89-92

  Udelson, James E ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; GLUCOSE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M; THALLIUM 201;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035162441     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(00)01082-2     Document Type: Editorial

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