lindner
dataset in the USPS
package.
The description comes from that package, except for the variable sixMonthSurvive
, which
is a recode of lifepres
Data from an observational study of 996 patients receiving an initial
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) at Ohio Heart Health, Christ Hospital,
Cincinnati in 1997 and followed for at least 6 months by the staff of the Lindner Center.
The patients thought to be more severely diseased were assigned to treatment with abciximab
(an expensive, high-molecular-weight IIb/IIIa cascade blocker); in fact, only 298 (29.9
percent) of patients received usual-care-alone with their initial PCI.data(lindner)
Obenchain RL. (2009) USPSinR.pdf ../R_HOME/library/USPS 40 pages.