Atrial fibrillation burden estimates derived from intermittent rhythm monitoring are unreliable estimates of the true atrial fibrillation burden

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1210-1218

  Charitos, Efstratios I ^a   Ziegler, Paul D ^b   Stierle, Ulrich ^a   Robinson, Derek R ^c   Graf, Bernhard ^a   Sievers, Hans Hinrich ^a   Hanke, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

arrhythmia; atrial fibrillation; clinical trial design; monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION BURDEN; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION DENSITY; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RHYTHM; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIAC MONITOR; IMPLANTABLE CONTINUOUS MONITORING DEVICE; INTERMITTENT RHYTHM MONITORING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PACEMAKER; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84908224436     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pace.12389     Document Type: Article

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