'Optimum' formulae for heart rate correction of the QT interval

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1683-1687

  Hnatkova, Katerina ^a   Malik, Marek ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heart rate correction; Linear regression analysis; Nonlinear models; QT interval

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; QT INTERVAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RR INTERVAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0032708361     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00390.x     Document Type: Review

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