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Cardiac risk factors and prevention
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Prescription of secondary prevention medications, lifestyle advice, and referral to rehabilitation among acute coronary syndrome inpatients: results from a large prospective audit in Australia and New Zealand
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- Published on: 23 November 2015
- Published on: 23 November 2015A lot more work to do to improve Antipodean healthcareShow More
The researchers here used a specified two-week period and their outcome measures were not 'prospective' but effectively cross-sectional. The papers labels itself a 'prospective audit' which makes the fundamental error clinicians often make in confusing a 'de novo consecutive series' of patients with the epidemiologist's definition of a 'prospective' study which is of course a 'cohort study', one in which outcomes are colle...
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