Discussion of: “Risky business? Investigating outcomes of patients undergoing urgent laparoscopic appendectomy on antithrombotic therapy”

Discussion of: “Risky business? Investigating outcomes of patients undergoing urgent laparoscopic appendectomy on antithrombotic therapy”

[...]did you do an analysis comparing the Aspirin/Plavix group to the 287 controlled groups that you cite? [...]why did you not match 2-to-1 controls for those Plavix/Aspirin group which is a common way in case control studies to increase the power? Stated another way, were any of the deaths in the...

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Veröffentlicht in:The American journal of surgery 2017-12, Vol.214 (6), p.1016-1017
Hauptverfasser: Pearcy, Christopher, Almahmoud, Khalid, Jackson, Theresa, Hartline, Cassie, Cahill, Anthony, Spence, Lara, Kim, Dennis, Olatubosun, Oluwabukola, Todd, S. Rob, Campion, Eric M., Burlew, Clay Cothren, Regner, Justin, Frazee, Richard, Michaels, David, Dissanaike, Sharmila, Stewart, Collin, Foley, Neal, Nelson, Paul, Agrawal, Vaidehi, Truitt, Michael S.
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Appendectomy
Appendicitis - surgery
Aspirin
Comorbidity
Fibrinolytic Agents
Humans
Laparoscopy
Length of Stay
Retrospective Studies
Treatment Outcome
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Zusammenfassung:[...]did you do an analysis comparing the Aspirin/Plavix group to the 287 controlled groups that you cite? [...]why did you not match 2-to-1 controls for those Plavix/Aspirin group which is a common way in case control studies to increase the power? Stated another way, were any of the deaths in the Plavix/Aspirin group related in any way to postoperative/intraoperative bleeding?
ISSN:0002-9610
1879-1883
DOI:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2017.10.012