A Risk Score to Predict Arrhythmias in Patients with Unexplained Syncope

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1312-1317

  Sarasin, François P ^a,c   Hanusa, Barbara H ^b   Perneger, Thomas ^a   Louis Simonet, Martine ^a   Rajeswaran, Anand ^a   Kapoor, Wishwa N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Hopital Cantonal   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Risk factor; Scoring system; Unexplained syncope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITORING; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNCOPE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0348014437     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/S1069-6563(03)00535-9     Document Type: Article

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