- ►annals.org [PDF] DA Marshall, AR Levy, H Vidaillet, E Fenwick … - Annals of internal medicine, 2004 - Am Coll Physicians Background: Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of sustained cardiac
arrhythmia, but recent trials have identified no clear advantage of rhythm
control over rate control. Consequently, economic factors often play a role ... Cited by 54 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
D Sources, T Horizon - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2004 - Am Coll Physicians Background: Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of sustained cardiac
arrhythmia, but recent trials have identified no clear advantage of rhythm
control over rate control. Consequently, economic factors often play a role ... Related articles
- ►oxfordjournals.org [PDF] VE Hagens, KM Vermeulen, EM TenVergert, DJ … - European heart journal, 2004 - Eur Soc Cardiology Page 1. Clinical research Rate control is more cost-effective than rhythm
control for patients with persistent atrial fibrillation ... Cited by 22 - Related articles - All 7 versions
- ►oxfordjournals.org GC Gronefeld, J Lilienthal, KH Kuck, SH … - European Heart Journal, 2003 - Eur Soc Cardiology Methods and results Patients with symptomatic persistent AF (7 to 360 days
duration) were prospectively randomized to ventricular rate control (n=125) or
to cardioversion and maintenance of sinus rhythm (n=127). QoL was assessed ... Cited by 48 - Related articles - All 2 versions
[CITATION] RACE study group. Rate control is more cost-effective than rhythm control for patients with …
- ►onlinejacc.org PS Chan, S Vijan, F Morady, H Oral - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2006 - Elsevier We developed a decision-analytic model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of
LACA in 55- and 65-year-old cohorts with AF at moderate and low stroke risk.
Costs, health utilities, and transition probabilities were derived from ... Cited by 37 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 21 versions
KS Coyne, C Paramore, S Grandy, M … - Value in Health, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com Treatment of AF represents a significant health-care burden with the costs of
treating AF in the inpatient setting outweighing the costs of treating AF in the
office, emergency room or hospital outpatient settings. Further research is ... Cited by 43 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►adisonline.com [PDF] MP Teng, E Catherwood, DP Melby - Pharmacoeconomics, 2000 - ingentaconnect.com Abstract Atrial fibrillation is the most common supraventricular tachyarrhythmia
en- countered in clinical practice, affecting over 5% of persons over the age of
65 years. A common pathophysiological mechanism for arrhythmia development ... Cited by 10 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
EJ Rashba, MR Gold, FA Crawford, RB Leman … - The American journal of cardiology, 2004 - Elsevier Biphasic shocks are more effective than damped sine wave monophasic shocks for
transthoracic cardioversion (CV) of atrial fibrillation (AF), but the optimal
protocol for CV with biphasic shocks has not been defined. We conducted a ... Cited by 14 - Related articles - All 10 versions
R Weerasooriya, P Jais, JYL Heuzey, C … - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, 2003 - interscience.wiley.com It is also possible that your web browser is not configured or not able to
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