September 16th, 2013
Combining Randomized Trials And Registries: A New Paradigm
John S Rumsfeld, MD, PhD
Ultimately, we need clinical trials to know what drugs and medical devices work. Without them, we will not have the evidence we need for clinical practice guidelines, and clinical care will not evolve. But traditional clinical trial approaches are not sustainable – too expensive and too inefficient. The new hope for clinical trials is to […]
September 1st, 2013
A Disruptive TASTE of the Future?
Larry Husten, PHD
Negative findings from a registry-based randomized trial of pre-PCI thrombus aspiration for STEMI patients
August 24th, 2012
Topol: The Clinical Trial World Is “Contrived”
Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM
Eric Topol says it’s time to “get rid of the randomized trial.” What do you say?
NEJM Journal Watch — Recent Cardiology Articles- Extensive Ablation vs. Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation
- Can a Novel Stent Design Improve Long-Term Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention?
- Are Angiographically-Derived Coronary Physiology Measurements Ready for Use in the Cath Lab?
- A Randomized Trial of Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair for Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
- An Early Look at a Novel Intranasal Loop Diuretic