Featured correspondence
Letters
The authors’ reply:
1 Division of Biostatistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
2 Medical Research Council Research Unit, South Africa
3 Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, UK
4 National Audit of Myocardial Infarction Project, National Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research, The Heart Hospital, London, UK
5 Pinderfields General Hospital, Aberford Road, Wakefield, UK
6 Academic Unit of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Yorkshire Heart Centre, The General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds, UK
Correspondence to:
Dr C P Gale, Division of Biostatistics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK; c.p.gale@leeds.ac.uk
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
We thank Dr Yan and colleagues for their attentive appraisal of our recent paper.1 The Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) is an extensive multicentre observational database which collects rich data on patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) admitted to all acute hospitals (n = 228) in England and Wales.2 Although it collects 118 data fields on over 650 000 ACS events, it does not collect precise details for some of the predictor variables used in common ACS risk scores. This is one of the weaknesses of the MINAP data: measures to overcome this constitute part of our clinical performance group research programme. As such, the dichotomisation of heart failure was beyond our control. We agree fully with Dr Yan that categorisation of data is an effortless process by which valuable information may be lost.
In response to the concerns of Dr Yan and colleagues about the manuscript’s ability
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
Relevant Article
- Evaluation of risk scores for risk stratification of acute coronary syndromes
- A T Yan, R T Yan, S Jedrzkiewicz, and S G Goodman
Heart 2009 95: 1019.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Full Text
- Full Text (PDF)
- Submit a response
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when eLetters are posted
- Alert me if a correction is posted
- Citation Map
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in this journal
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
