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Mr. Jones, a 55-year-old man with a recent history of myocardial infarction (heart attack), has arteriographic X-ray evidence of severe occlusion of two of his three major coronary arteries. Should his physician prescribe drug treatment or refer him to a surgeon for a bypass operation?
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Kramer, M.S. (1988). Introduction. In: Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61372-2_1
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