The effectiveness of transtelephonic monitoring of pacemaker function in pediatric patients

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 725-729

  Fox, Scott A ^a   Mackenzie, Laura ^b   Flemming, Joanna Mills ^b   Warren, Andrew E ^a  

^a IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Follow up; Pacemaker; Pediatric; Telephone; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CALCULATION; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PEDIATRICS; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEPHONE TELEMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEPHONE;

EID: 34249773963     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00741.x     Document Type: Article

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