Revascularisation versus medical treatment in patients with stable coronary artery disease: network meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate whether revascularisation improves prognosis compared with medical treatment among patients with stable coronary artery disease.

Design

Bayesian network meta-analyses to combine direct within trial comparisons between treatments with indirect evidence from other trials while maintaining randomisation.

Eligibility criteria for selecting studies

A strategy of initial medical treatment compared with revascularisation by coronary artery bypass grafting or Food and Drug Administration approved techniques for percutaneous revascularization: balloon angioplasty, bare metal stent, early generation paclitaxel eluting stent, sirolimus eluting stent, and zotarolimus eluting (Endeavor) stent, and new generation everolimus eluting stent, and zotarolimus el

SUBMITTER: Windecker S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4066935 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature