The world's first wiki where authorship really matters (Nature Genetics, 2008). Due credit and reputation for authors. Imagine a global collaborative knowledge base for original thoughts. Search thousands of articles and collaborate with scientists around the globe.

wikigene or wiki gene protein drug chemical gene disease author authorship tracking collaborative publishing evolutionary knowledge reputation system wiki2.0 global collaboration genes proteins drugs chemicals diseases compound

Hoffmann, R. A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters. Nature Genetics (2008)

[search][options]

Editor

Personal info

View

About

Terms

Javascript disabled

Please enable Javascript support in your browser to use this application.

Instructions on how to enable JavaScript on different browsers can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=23852.

[edit this page]

Ector, H. et al.

Survival analysis and clinical medicine. An observational comparison of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator, amiodarone treatment, and heart transplantation.

In clinical practice, observational studies remain necessary for evaluating accepted and new treatments. The comparison of results remains difficult and often controversial, because of a wide variation in clinical characteristics. Survival analysis and calculation of the standardized mortality ratio offer the possibility to compare outcomes in different study groups. We have applied these techniques to an observational comparison of outcomes in three groups of patients, followed in two university centres: (i) patients treated with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator; (ii) patients under amiodarone treatment; and (iii) recipients of a heart transplant. There was no statistically significant difference in the cumulative survival from total mortality. The standardized mortality ratio revealed the different natural history of patients undergoing heart transplantation.[1]

References

Survival analysis and clinical medicine. An observational comparison of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator, amiodarone treatment, and heart transplantation. Ector, H., Jordaens, L., Vanhaecke, J. Eur. Heart J. (1996) [Pubmed]

Annotations and hyperlinks in this abstract are from individual authors of WikiGenes or automatically generated by the WikiGenes Data Mining Engine. The abstract is from MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.About WikiGenes Open Access Licence Privacy Policy Terms of Use apsburg