Influence of healthy candidate bias in assessing clinical effectiveness for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: cohort study of older patients with heart failure

Objective To assess the potential contribution of unmeasured general health status to patient selection in assessments of the clinical effectiveness of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy. Design Retrospective cohort study. Setting Linked data from an ICD registry, heart failure reg...

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Autores principales: Setoguchi, Soko, Warner Stevenson, Lynne, Stewart, Garrick C, Bhatt, Deepak L, Epstein, Andrew E, Desai, Manisha, Williams, Lauren A, Chen, Chih-Ying
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2014
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4014056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24812112
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g2866

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4014056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24812112
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g2866

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