Confounding by Indication in Retrospective Studies of Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Antiepileptic Treatment and Mortality
Battey TW, Falcone GJ, Ayres AM, Schwab K, Viswanathan A, McNamara KA, DiPucchio ZY, Greenberg SM, Sheth KN, Goldstein JN, Rosand J. Confounding by Indication in Retrospective Studies of Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Antiepileptic Treatment and Mortality. Neurocritical Care 2012, 17: 361-366. PMID: 22965324, PMCID: PMC3707622, DOI: 10.1007/s12028-012-9776-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIntroductionIntracerebral hemorrhageAED treatmentAntiepileptic drugsCohort of patientsAntiepileptic treatmentRankin scoreICH locationIntracerebral hemorrhageRetrospective studyHemorrhage locationClinicians' decisionsResultsMultivariate analysisRetrospective analysisSupratentorial regionFatal diseaseConclusionThese resultsMortalityPatientsConflicting resultsTreatmentTreatment effectsHemorrhageCohortAssociationAdequate power