High burden of unrecognized atrial fibrillation in rural India: An innovative community-based cross-sectional screening program

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Soni, Apurv ^a   Earon, Allison ^a   Handorf, Anna ^a   Fahey, Nisha ^a   Talati, Kandarp ^b   Bostrom, John ^a   Chon, Ki ^c   Napolitano, Craig ^a   Chin, Michael ^a   Sullivan, John ^a   Raithatha, Shyamsundar ^b   Goldberg, Robert ^a   Nimbalkar, Somashekhar ^b   Allison, Jeroan ^a   Thanvi, Sunil ^b   McManus, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b PRAMUKHSWAMI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Community health workers; India; Mobile technology; Screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026845189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.6517     Document Type: Article

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