Clinical trials for cardiac pacing in bradycardia: The end or the beginning?

Circulation

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-5

  Tse, Hung Fat ^a   Lau, Chu Pak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HEART BLOCK; METHODOLOGY; NOTE;

BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CLINICAL TRIALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 33746206338     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.635854     Document Type: Editorial

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