External validity of randomized clinical trials in vascular surgery: systematic review of demographic factors of patients recruited to randomized clinical trials with comparison to the National Vascul... Practicing evidence-based medicine requires that the patients we encounter in daily practice are represented in the populations recruited to randomized cli

How do patients in clinical trials compare to those we see in our clinical practice. We asked just that:

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Yesterday I presented work that was bothering me for a long time

Do we study the patients we operate on?

300 studies, >60k recruited patients and barely any patient characterises reported beyond age and sex @VSGBI

Systematic review and comparison to NVR

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