Agreement Is Poor Among Current Criteria Used to Define Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Author(s) -
Brandon K. Fornwalt,
William W. Sprague,
Patrick E. BeDell,
Jonathan D Suever,
Bart Gerritse,
John Merlino,
Derek A. Fyfe,
Angel R. León,
John N. Oshinski
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.109.910778
Subject(s) - cardiac resynchronization therapy , medicine , kappa , cohen's kappa , cardiology , heart failure , statistics , ejection fraction , mathematics , geometry
Numerous criteria believed to define a positive response to cardiac resynchronization therapy have been used in the literature. No study has investigated agreement among these response criteria. We hypothesized that the agreement among the various response criteria would be poor.
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