Differences between QT and RR intervals in digital and digitized paper electrocardiograms: contribution of the printer, scanner, and digitization process

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 370-375

  Hingorani, Pooja ^a   Karnad, Dilip R ^a   Panicker, Gopi Krishna ^a   Deshmukh, Sheetal ^a   Kothari, Snehal ^a   Narula, Dhiraj ^a  

^a IQVIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac repolarization; Central laboratory; Clinical trials; Document scanner; Extensible markup language (XML); New drug development; QTc interval; Thorough QT study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIGITALIZATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACHINE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RR INTERVAL;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAPER; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 49449101318     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2008.02.026     Document Type: Article

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