Impact of Study Design on Outcome after Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair. A Comparison between the Randomized Controlled DREAM-trial and the Observational EUROSTAR-registry

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 172-176

  Leurs, L J ^a   Buth, J ^a   Harris, P L ^c   Blankensteijn, J D ^b  

^a CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; DREAM; Endovascular repair; EUROSTAR; Observational registry; Randomized clinical trial; Study design

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RANDOMIZATION; RANK SUM TEST; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BELGIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REGISTRIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33846157392     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2006.09.011     Document Type: Article

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