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Assessing the Effectiveness of Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring for Specific Clinical Indications: Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Miriam E. Adams ,
Alexia Antczak-Bouckoms ,
Howard S. Frazier ,
Joseph Lau ,
Thomas C. Chalmers  and
Frederick Mosteller
Miriam E. Adams
Affiliation:
Harvard School of Public Health
Alexia Antczak-Bouckoms
Affiliation:
Harvard School of Public Health
Howard S. Frazier
Affiliation:
Harvard School of Public Health
Joseph Lau
Affiliation:
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Thomas C. Chalmers
Affiliation:
Harvard School of Public Health
Frederick Mosteller
Affiliation:
Harvard School of Public Health
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Extract

This introduction and the three essays that follow it examine ambulatory cardiac monitoring for specific clinical indications. They also examine the ways in which evidence from the literature may be synthesized through the framework of decision analysis to guide its appropriate use and identify areas in which more research is needed. The essays discuss ambulatory cardiac monitoring for evaluation of syncope in the elderly; detection of silent ischemia after a myocardial infarction; and selection of antiarrhythmic drugs for malignant ventricular arrhythmias.

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General Essays
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , Winter 1993 , pp. 97 - 101
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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