title: Generating new knowledge in cardiac interventions.
abstract: Cardiac interventions are among the most quantitatively studied therapies. It is important for all involved with cardiac interventions to understand how information generated from observations made during patient care is transformed into data suitable for analysis, to appreciate at a high level what constitutes appropriate analyses of those data, to effectively evaluate inferences drawn from those analyses, and to apply new knowledge to better care for individual patients.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Investigations, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, JJ40, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA. blackse@ccf.org
authors.forename: Eugene H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Blackstone
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D035843:Biomedical Research; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D057216:Propensity Score; D013223:Statistics as Topic