Cardiovascular outcome ascertainment was similar using blinded and unblinded adjudicators in a national prospective study

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1159-1163

  Parmar, Gaurav ^a   Ghuge, Pallavi ^a   Halanych, Jewell H ^a   Funkhouser, Ellen ^a   Safford, Monika M ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Blinding; Disparities; Hospital records review; Masking; Medical records; Quality; Unblinding

Indexed keywords

BIOSTATISTICS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; STROKE; THORAX PAIN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEGRO; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHEST PAIN; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78349263863     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.12.017     Document Type: Article

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