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Debate: The slippery slope of surrogate outcomes

Overview of attention for article published in Trials, October 2000
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Title
Debate: The slippery slope of surrogate outcomes
Published in
Trials, October 2000
DOI 10.1186/cvm-1-2-076
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Ralph B D'Agostino

Abstract

Surrogate outcomes are frequently used in cardiovascular disease research. A concern is that changes in surrogate markers may not reflect changes in disease outcomes. Two recent clinical trials (Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study [HERS], and the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial [ALLHAT]) underscore this problem since their results contradicted what was expected based on the surrogate outcomes. The current regulatory policy to allow new therapies to be introduced onto the market based solely on surrogate outcomes may need to be reviewed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 3%
Colombia 1 3%
Unknown 28 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 20%
Professor 3 10%
Student > Bachelor 3 10%
Student > Postgraduate 3 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 10%
Other 7 23%
Unknown 5 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 13 43%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 7%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Chemical Engineering 1 3%
Other 4 13%
Unknown 8 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 April 2020.
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#3,718,041
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Outputs from Trials
#45
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#3,614
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