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Figure 2 Concordance of Treatment Assignment Alters Observed Benefit Only for Patients Randomized to PCI
Kaplan-Meier curves stratified by concordance (green lines) and discordance (black lines) for (A) all patients randomized to PCI, (B) all patients randomized to CABG, and (C) all patients randomized to medical treatment show significant differences in the PCI randomized cohort for whom the outcome of this treatment was better if it was in concordance with the preferred treatment of clinicians. Abbreviations as in Figure 1. Reprinted with permission from Pereira et al. (6).
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