Both sets of patients deteriorate if they don't get early treatment".
We reviewed capabilities of other published IDRs for focusing on sets of patients.
Even including the extra cost of the vascular surgery, the costs of treating the two sets of patients before dialysis began were about the same.
A few differences did exist between the two sets of patients, likely reflecting the better compliance of patients that started dialysis optimally.
Patient lists are project-specific sets of patients that can be queried in integrated data repositories (IDR's).
This study clearly shows the benefits of one course of treatment for specific sets of patients with coronary heart disease over another.
"We conducted the same analysis in two different sets of patients and found the same results," said Dr. Wendy A. Woodward, the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the University of Texas.
Dr. Nuovo found that in comparing two sets of patients -- those who received a treatment and those who received a placebo -- the studies were overwhelmingly more likely to report the relative reduction in risk, rather than the absolute reduction.
I knew I was doing a substandard job with both sets of patients, but I couldn't be in two places at once.
Other experts want the one thing that Dr. Henschke and her team have not provided — a study comparing two sets of patients, a group given CT scans and a control group given chest X-rays or no screening at all, to see whether the scans really do lower the death rate from lung cancer in the long run.
They're currently testing 8,000 sets of patients per year.
