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FDA = United States Food and Drug Administration; GP = glycoprotein; MI = myocardial infarction; PAES = Parodi Anti-Emboli System; US = United States.
Myocardial infarction has been considered a 'hard' end-point, but its assessment can be as difficult in clinical trials as it is in clinical practice, because clinical, laboratory, and ECG data may conflict and physicians often disagree whether a patient has suffered a MI.
No differences between HMO and FFS samples were found in studies of care for colon cancer, [ 31 3 2 ] breast cancer, [ 33 34 ] prostate cancer, [ 35 ] cardiovascular disease, [ 36 ] rheumatoid arthritis, [ 37 ] congestive heart failure, [ 38 ] hypertension, [ 39 ] acute myocardial infarction, [ 40 ] acute appendicitis, [ 41 ] and stroke.
CEC = clinical events committee; CK-MB = creatine kinase-myocardial band; ECG = electrocardiography; MI = myocardial infarction; PCI = percutaneous coronary intervention; PURSUIT = Platelet Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa in Unstable Angina: Receptor Suppression Using Integrilin (Eptifibatide) Therapy; ULN = upper limit of normal.
The rates of infarction as adjudicated by the CEC in the PURSUIT trial were higher than reported in previous trials of patients with acute coronary syndromes, for several reasons [ 1, 7, 8, 29].