Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality in Randomized Clinical Trials Comparing Percutaneous Interventions With Coronary Bypass Surgery
Gaudino M, Hameed I, Farkouh ME, Rahouma M, Naik A, Robinson NB, Ruan Y, Demetres M, Biondi-Zoccai G, Angiolillo DJ, Bagiella E, Charlson ME, Benedetto U, Ruel M, Taggart DP, Girardi LN, Bhatt DL, Fremes SE. Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality in Randomized Clinical Trials Comparing Percutaneous Interventions With Coronary Bypass Surgery. JAMA Internal Medicine 2020, 180: 1638-1646. PMID: 33044497, PMCID: PMC7551235, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.4748.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPercutaneous coronary interventionRandomized clinical trialsCause-specific mortalityCoronary artery diseaseBare metal stentsNoncardiac mortalityCause mortalityCoronary interventionArtery diseaseClinical trialsTrials of PCIEnd pointLeft main diseaseCoronary artery bypassStudy end pointCoronary bypass surgeryData extractionTreatment of patientsCochrane Library databasesPreferred Reporting ItemsRandom-effects modelArtery bypassCardiac mortalityRevascularization TrialBypass surgery