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ReviewCardiac failure review2019

Aortic Stenosis and Heart Failure: Disease Ascertainment and Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials.

Ernest Spitzer, Rebecca T Hahn, Philippe Pibarot, Ton de Vries, Jeroen J Bax, Martin B Leon, Nicolas M Van Mieghem

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Review in Cardiac failure review, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Ernest SpitzerThoraxcenter, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Rebecca T HahnNew York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY, US.
Philippe PibarotQuebec Heart and Lung Institute, Laval University Quebec, Canada.
Ton de VriesCardialysis, Clinical Trial Management and Core Laboratories Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Jeroen J BaxDepartment of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center Leiden, the Netherlands.
Martin B LeonNew York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY, US.
Nicolas M Van MieghemThoraxcenter, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aortic stenosis is a progressive disease that develops over decades, and once symptomatic and untreated, is associated with poor survival. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement has evolved significantly in the past decade and has expanded its indication from surgically inoperable and high-risk patients to patients with intermediate risk. Assessment of heart failure-related outcomes include the use of functional assessments, disease-specific quality of life surveys and standardised ascertainment of events, such as hospitalisations. Multiple statistical approaches are currently being tested to account for recurrent events such as hospitalisations for heart failure or to combine binary and continuous outcomes, both intended to assess the holistic burden of the disease, as opposed to the traditional analysis of time to first event.

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Aortic stenosisclinical endpointsheart failurequality of liferandomised controlled trialsrehospitalisationstatistical analysis

Identifiers

PMID31179020
PMCPMC6545996

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