Cardiovascular outcomes ascertainment was similar using blinded and unblinded adjudicators in a national prospective study

OBJECTIVE: Observational studies can avoid biases by blinding medical records to characteristics of interest prior to outcomes adjudication. However, blinding is costly. We assessed the effect of blinding race and geography on outcomes ascertainment. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: The REasons for Geograp...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Parmar, Gaurav, Ghuge, Pallavi, Halanych, Jewell H., Funkhouser, Ellen, Safford, Monika M.
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: 2010
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2913162/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20430582
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.12.017
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