The Cost Effectiveness of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators. Results From the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial (MADIT)-II

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2310-2318

  Zwanziger, Jack ^a   Hall, W Jackson ^a   Dick, Andrew W ^a   Zhao, Hongwei ^a   Mushlin, Alvin I ^a   Hahn, Rebecca Marron ^a   Wang, Hongkun ^a   Andrews, Mark L ^a   Mooney, Cathleen ^a   Wang, Hongyue ^a   Moss, Arthur J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646937158     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.03.032     Document Type: Article

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