Barriers to patients eligible for screening investigations and insertion of primary prevention implantable cardioverter defibrillators | Zendy

Praveen P. Sadarmin | Zendy; Kenneth C. Wong | Zendy; Kim Rajappan | Zendy; Yaver Bashir | Zendy; Timothy R. Betts | Zendy

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Barriers to patients eligible for screening investigations and insertion of primary prevention implantable cardioverter defibrillators

Author(s) -

Praveen P. Sadarmin,

Kenneth C. Wong,

Kim Rajappan,

Yaver Bashir,

Timothy R. Betts

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

ep europace

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.119

H-Index - 102

eISSN - 1532-2092

pISSN - 1099-5129

DOI - 10.1093/europace/euu054

Subject(s) - medicine , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , primary prevention , referral , primary care , secondary prevention , intensive care medicine , implant , emergency medicine , medical emergency , family medicine , surgery , disease

Primary prevention (PP) implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implant rates in the UK are below national targets and barriers to this are not well known. This study was designed to identify the stages along the referral pathway from general to specialist care that eligible patients reach and what proportion eventually receive an ICD.

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