Is there a sex bias in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator referral and prescription?

Heart

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 937-938

  Staniforth, A D ^a   Sporton, S C ^b   Robinson, N M ^a   Cooper, J ^c   Earley, M J ^a   Nathan, A W ^a   Schilling, R J ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; PRESCRIPTIONS, NON-DRUG; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 3442893898     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2003.013136     Document Type: Article

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