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A method for early evaluation of a recently introduced technology by deriving a comparative group from existing clinical data: a case study in external support of the Marfan aortic root

OBJECTIVE: During the early phase of evaluation of a new intervention, data exist for present practice. The authors propose a method of constructing a fair comparator group using these data. In this case study, the authors use the example of external aortic root support, a novel alternative to aorti...

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Autores principales: Treasure, Tom, Crowe, Sonya, Chan, K M John, Ranasinghe, Aaron, Attia, Rizwan, Lees, Belinda, Utley, Martin, Golesworthy, Tal, Pepper, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Group 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3293136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22389361
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000725