Index event bias as an explanation for the paradoxes of recurrence risk research

JAMA

Volumn 305, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 822-823

  Dahabreh, Issa J ^a   Kent, David M ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

CLINICAL RESEARCH; CRYPTOGENIC STROKE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOPHILIA; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

EID: 79951968740     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.163     Document Type: Note

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