Large multicenter trials: What do they achieve and what should be done in perfusion?

Journal of Extra-Corporeal Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 274-277

  Myles, Paul ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GOLD STANDARD; HEART SURGERY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFUSION; RANDOMIZATION; RELIABILITY; ARTICLE; COMPLICATION; DRUG THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRAGMATIC TRIAL; TYPE I ERROR; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RESEARCH; THORAX SURGERY;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERFUSION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RESEARCH; THORACIC SURGERY;

EID: 40949141503     PISSN: 00221058     EISSN: 29698960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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