Use of ordinal outcomes in vascular prevention trials: comparison with binary outcomes in published trials

Background and Purpose—Vascular prevention trials mostly count “yes/no” (binary) outcome events, eg, stroke/no stroke. Analysis of ordered categorical vascular events (eg, fatal stroke/nonfatal stroke/no stroke) is clinically relevant and could be more powerful statistically. Although this is not...

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Main Authors: Bath, Philip M.W., Geeganage, Chamila, Gray, Laura J., Collier, T, Pocock, S
Format: Article
Published: American Heart Association 2008
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/961/