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Chapter Forty Three - Clinical Stroke Trials

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2022

Louis R. Caplan  and
Aishwarya Aggarwal
Louis R. Caplan
Affiliation:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre
Aishwarya Aggarwal
Affiliation:
John F. Kennedy Medical Center
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Summary

Clinical trials have played a key role in the transformation of stroke from a neglected, untreatable condition to a field where some of the most dramatic outcomes are achieved. The development of concepts in stroke clinical trials has largely occurred during the last six decades and is closely linked to development of clinical trial methodology and evidence-based medicine in general. Stroke trials sometimes played a pioneering role in this development.

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Stories of Stroke
Key Individuals and the Evolution of Ideas
 , pp. 413 - 426
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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