Standardized bleeding definitions for cardiovascular clinical trials: a consensus report from the Bleeding Academic Research Consortium.

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Published in Circulation on June 14, 2011

Authors

Roxana Mehran1, Sunil V Rao, Deepak L Bhatt, C Michael Gibson, Adriano Caixeta, John Eikelboom, Sanjay Kaul, Stephen D Wiviott, Venu Menon, Eugenia Nikolsky, Victor Serebruany, Marco Valgimigli, Pascal Vranckx, David Taggart, Joseph F Sabik, Donald E Cutlip, Mitchell W Krucoff, E Magnus Ohman, Philippe Gabriel Steg, Harvey White

Author Affiliations

1: Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029, USA. roxana.mehran@mssm.edu

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