title: Outcomes analysis of the treatment of carotid artery disease.
abstract: The author presents a brief review of the methodologies of outcomes analysis. Recent large database outcomes studies on patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy are also reviewed and compared with the data generated from two prospective randomized studies, and large database outcomes analysis are discussed. The efforts of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Outcomes Committee to perform online, multicenter outcomes studies are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Section of Neurosurgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Harbaugh
mesh_terms: D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D016896:Treatment Outcome