Better outcomes for patients treated at hospitals that participate in clinical trials

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 657-662

  Majumdar, Sumit R ^a,d   Roe, Matthew T ^b   Peterson, Eric D ^b   Chen, Anita Y ^b   Gibler, W Brian ^c   Armstrong, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41549101040     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2007.124     Document Type: Article

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