Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
Guyatt G, Rennie D, Meade MO, Cook DJ
Part B Therapy
Chapter 10.4. Composite Endpoints
Gordon Guyatt, Victor Montori, Ignacio Ferreira-González, Jason W. Busse, Holger Schünemann, Roman Jaeschke, Gaietà Permanyer-Miralda
Consider the following statement: In patients with in-stent stenosis of coronary artery bypass...
Topics Discussed:
composite endpoints, coronary artery bypass surgery, health outcomes
Excerpt:
"If the more patient-important components occur with far less frequency
than the less patient-important components of a CEP, the CEP becomes
uninformative, if not frankly misleading. Clinicians must look carefully
at the results of each component to interpret the results for their
patients...."
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