Our guest is Robert Yeh, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. We discuss the challenges of outcomes research and his excellent work to improve the reliability of observational studies

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Robert W. Yeh, MD: Twitter and professional web page

LINKS:

• Strom JB, et al. Use of Administrative Claims Data to Assess Outcomes and Treatment Effects in Randomized Trials of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (in Circulation)
• Faridi KM, et al. Use of Administrative Claims Data to Estimate Treatment Effects for 30 days versus 12 months of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (in Circulation)
• Konstam M. Real World Data as trial End Points: Off and Running with a Long Way to Go (editorial in Circulation)

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Ep. 19 Public Reporting: Necessary Evil or Harmful Fake News?

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