Analysis of the impact of early surgery on in-hospital mortality of native valve endocarditis: Use of propensity score and instrumental variable methods to adjust for treatment-selection bias

Circulation

Volumn 121, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1005-1013

  Lalani, Tahaniyat ^a   Cabell, Christopher H ^b   Benjamin, Daniel K ^c   Lasca, Ovidiu ^c   Naber, Christoph ^d   Fowler, Vance G ^a   Corey, G Ralph ^a   Chu, Vivian H ^a   Fenely, Michael ^e   Pachirat, Orathai ^f   Tan, Ru San ^g   Watkin, Richard ^h   Ionac, Adina ⁱ   Moreno, Asuncion ^j   Mestres, Carlos A ^j   Casabé, José ^k   Chipigina, Natalia ^l   Eisen, Damon P ^m   Spelman, Denis ⁿ   Delahaye, Francois ^o   Peterson, Gail ^p   Olaison, Lars ^q   Wang, Andrew ^a   more..

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b IQVIA   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^e ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^g DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ VICTOR BABES UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^k FAVALORO UNIVERSITY   (Argentina)

^l PIROGOV RUSSIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^m ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

ⁿ ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^o LOUIS PRADEL HOSPITAL   (France)

^p UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^q SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

more..

Author keywords

Drug therapy; Endocarditis; Hospital mortality; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART VALVE SURGERY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STROKE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COHORT STUDIES; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELECTION BIAS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77649249197     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.864488     Document Type: Article

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