The generalizability of participants in Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program 474, a multi-site randomized cardiac bypass surgery trial

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 260-266

  Wagner, Todd H ^a   Holman, William ^b   Lee, Kelvin ^c   Sethi, Gulshan ^d   Ananth, Lakshmi ^e   Thai, Hoang ^f   Goldman, Steven ^f  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e Health Economics Resource Center   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass surgery; Generalizability; Study design

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PARAMETER; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIAL ARTERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VETERANS;

EID: 79551516516     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2010.11.008     Document Type: Article

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