Some old and some new statistical tools for outcomes research

Circulation

Volumn 118, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 872-884

  Normand, Sharon Lise T ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Clustering; Data interpretation; Outcomes assessment; Statistical

Indexed keywords

CLOPIDOGREL; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BARE METAL STENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATHETERIZATION; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG ELUTING STENT; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; UNITED STATES; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53749107577     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.766907     Document Type: Review

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