Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
How does a clinical trial fit into the real world? The RELAX-AHF study population into the EAHFE registry.
To test how accurate the recently published RELAX-AHF trial was in recruiting real-world patients with acute-decompensated heart failure (ADHF). ⋯ Patients included in the RELAX-AHF trial showed unanticipated differences when compared with a population from the EAHFE registry fulfilling very similar inclusion and exclusion criteria.