Clinical inference: Critically weighing the evidence from trials and registries to make clinical decisions

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 381-385

  Morrison, Douglass ^a  

^a Yakima Heart Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Confounding; Internal validity bias; Randomized trials; Registries external validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; METHODOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; REGISTER; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELECTION BIAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53849096406     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21628     Document Type: Article

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