Underrepresentation of women, elderly patients, and racial minorities in the randomized trials used for cardiovascular guidelines

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1868-1870

  Sardar, Muhammad Rizwan ^a,b   Badri, Marwan ^a   Prince, Catherine T ^a   Seltzer, Jonathan ^a,c   Kowey, Peter R ^a,d  

^a LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

^c Applied Clinical Intelligence   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MINORITY GROUP; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; FEMALE; MALE; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION;

EID: 84925283620     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: 21686114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.4758     Document Type: Article

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