Ordinal reanalysis of the SHEP trial

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Bath, Philip M W ^a   Geeganage, Chamila M ^a   Gray, Laura J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORTALIDONE; PLACEBO; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LETTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CHLORTHALIDONE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; SAMPLE SIZE; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 52449100098     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.527044     Document Type: Letter

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