The virtues of observational medicine. Lessons from the French Acute ST-elevation and non-ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction (FAST-MI) registry
Registries have become extremely fashionable in cardiology: a PubMed search with the terms “acute myocardial infarction” and “registry” retrieved only 18 articles in 1995, compared with 112 in 2010. One…