Multicenter survey on the validity of the CD-ROM guideline for antiarrhythmic drug therapy produced by the Japanese Circulation Society and the Japanese Society on Electrocardiology: Preliminary report of the survey of the Japanese Guideline for Arrhythmia Management By Individual Therapy (J-GAMBIT)

Circulation Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1357-1360

  Katoh, Takao ^a   Ohara, Toshihiko ^a   Ogawa, Satoshi ^b   Kodama, Itsuo ^c  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiarrhythmic drugs; Multicenter investigational survey; Sicilian Gambit; Therapeutic guidelines

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPACT DISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECG ABNORMALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; JAPAN; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CD-ROM; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 27644565102     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.69.1357     Document Type: Article

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