Prevalence and predictors of off-label use of cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients enrolled in the national cardiovascular data registry implantable cardiac-defibrillator registry

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 766-773

  Fein, Adam S ^a   Wang, Yongfei ^b   Curtis, Jeptha P ^b   Masoudi, Frederick A ^c,d   Varosy, Paul D ^c   Reynolds, Matthew R ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac pacing utilization; cardiac resynchronization therapy; CRT; guideline adherence; ICD registry; NCDR; overuse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE REGISTRY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX;

AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956141951     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2010.05.025     Document Type: Article

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