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ArticleInnovations (Philadelphia, Pa.)

The Cost of Innovation and Evidence in Cardiac Surgery.

Joanna Chikwe, Mario Gaudino

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Article in Innovations (Philadelphia, Pa.). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Joanna Chikwe22494 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Mario Gaudino373666 Division of Cardiac Surgery, Weill Cornell, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review summarizes a systematic analysis of 216 randomized trials of cardiovascular interventions performed during 2008-2019, according to the source of trial funding. The systematic analysis showed that on average the results of each trial would change significance if only 5 patients experienced different outcomes. Industry-sponsored trials were more likely to use composite endpoints, noninferiority designs, and twice as likely as nonindustry trials to report results favoring the device arm. Over 80% of industry trials used reporting strategies or "spin" suggesting the device arm was advantageous versus fewer than half of non-industry trials. The review discusses the implications of these findings.

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Health Care CostsCardiac Surgical ProceduresCardiovascular DiseasesHumansInventionspercutaneous coronary interventionrandomized clinical trialstranscatheter aortic valve replacementtranscatheter mitral valve repair

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