Risks of Overinterpreting Interim Data: Lessons From the TOTAL Trial (Thrombectomy With PCI Versus PCI Alone in Patients With STEMI)

Circulation. 2018 Jan 9;137(2):206-209. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.030656.
No abstract available

Keywords: myocardial infarction; percutaneous coronary intervention.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Letter
  • Multicenter Study
  • Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Clinical Trials Data Monitoring Committees*
  • Data Accuracy
  • Early Termination of Clinical Trials
  • Heart Failure / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention* / adverse effects
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention* / mortality
  • Recurrence
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Factors
  • ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction / diagnostic imaging
  • ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction / mortality
  • ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction / surgery*
  • Shock, Cardiogenic / epidemiology
  • Thrombectomy* / adverse effects
  • Thrombectomy* / mortality
  • Time Factors
  • Treatment Outcome

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