Health Services and Outcomes Research Do Postmarketing Surveillance Studies Represent Real-World Populations? A Comparison of Patient Characteristics and Outcomes After Carotid Artery Stenting
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Continuing medical education (CME) credit is available for this article. Go to http://cme.ahajournals.org to take the quiz. Received October 18, 2010; accepted February 4, 2011. From the Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (R.W.Y., R.S., K.R.); Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute and University of Missouri–Kansas City, Kansas City (K.K., J.A.S.); Harrington-McLaughlin Heart and Vascular Institute, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH (S.A.P.); University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston (H.V.A.); and Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA (C.J.W.). Guest Editor for this article was Gregg C. Fonarow, MD. The online-only Data Supplement is available with this article at http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.991075/DC1. Correspondence to Robert W. Yeh, MD, MSc, Cardiology Division, GRB 800, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02144. E-mail [email protected] © 2011 American Heart Association, Inc.
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Do postmarketing surveillance studies represent real-world populations? A comparison of patient characteristics and outcomes after carotid artery stenting.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011