Not only did I burst out laughing at this illustration—much to the chagrin of my tablemates—but I had a verbal reaction as well to this little tidbit describing the study design type:
“Methods: A retrospective review of a prospectively collected institutional trauma registry was performed.”
Kill yourselves!
Blunt traumatic aortic injury: initial experience with endovascular repair. Azizzadeh A, Keyhani K, Miller CC 3rd, Coogan SM, Safi HJ, Estrera AL. J Vasc Surg. 2009 Jun;49(6):1403-8.
