Atrial fibrillation in patients with ischaemic stroke in the Swedish national patient registers: Howmuch do wemiss?

Europace

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1714-1719

  Baturova, Maria A ^a,b   Lindgren, Arne ^c,d   Carlson, Jonas ^a   Shubik, Yuri V ^b   Olsson, S Bertil ^a   Platonov, Pyotr G ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Electrocardiography; Sensitivity; Specificity; Swedish Patient Register; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWEDISH CITIZEN; COMORBIDITY; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; SWEDEN; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; SWEDEN;

EID: 84922436572     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euu165     Document Type: Article

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