Cardiac event recorders yield more diagnoses and are more cost-effective than 48-hour Holter monitoring in patients with palpitations: A controlled clinical trial

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 1 I, 1996, Pages 16-20

  Kinlay, Scott ^a   Leitch, James W ^a   Neil, Amanda ^a,b   Chapman, Barry L ^a   Hardy, David B ^a   Fletcher, Peter J ^a  

^a JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART PALPITATION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0030030564     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-124-1_part_1-199601010-00003     Document Type: Article

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