A perfect storm: How a randomized trial of unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations' (ARUBA's) trial design challenges notions of external validity

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1979-1981

  Cockroft, Kevin M ^a,b   Jayaraman, Mahesh V ^c   Amin Hanjani, Sepideh ^a,b   Derdeyn, Colin P ^c   McDougall, Cameron G ^c   Wilson, John A ^a,b  

^a Cerebrovascular Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons   (United States)

^b Congress of Neurological Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^c Society of Neuro Interventional Surgery (SNIS)   (United States)

Author keywords

AVM; cerebrovascular disease; endovascular treatment; interventional neuroradiology; intracranial hemorrhage; methodology; neurosurgery; randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; DISABILITY; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTER; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84863315415     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.652032     Document Type: Note

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