Challenges of decision making regarding futility in a randomized trial: The interventional management of stroke III experience

Stroke

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1408-1414

  Yeatts, Sharon D ^a   Martin, Renee H ^a   Coffey, Christopher S ^b   Lyden, Patrick D ^c   Foster, Lydia D ^a   Woolson, Robert F ^a   Broderick, Joseph P ^d   Di Tullio, Marco R ^e   Jungreis, Charles A ^f   Palesch, Yuko Y ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^f TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Endovascular techniques

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARALLEL DESIGN; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANKIN SCALE;

CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOVASCULAR TECHNIQUES;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MEDICAL FUTILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84899757152     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.003925     Document Type: Article

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