The drug-eluting stent information gap.

Am Heart Hosp J

Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, 117 Encina Commons, Stanford, CA 94305-6019, USA.

Published: February 2005

Drug-eluting stents are quickly replacing bare-metal stents as the arterial revascularization device of choice. Because nearly all the information we have about patient outcomes with drug-eluting stents is from trials designed for US Food and Drug Administration approval, we are missing some of the information critical to a more comprehensive understanding of how these new devices will perform at the population level.

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