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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Main Authors: Setoguchi, Soko, Warner Stevenson, Lynne, Stewart, Garrick C, Bhatt, Deepak L, Epstein, Andrew E, Desai, Manisha, Williams, Lauren A, Chen, Chih-Ying
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4014056/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24812112
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g2866
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