Potential of Missing Life-Threatening Arrhythmias After Limiting the Use of Cardiac Telemetry

JAMA Intern Med. 2015 Aug;175(8):1416-8. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.2387.

Authors

Pranav Kansara¹, Kristi Jackson², Robert Dressler³, Henry Weiner¹, Roger Kerzner¹, William S Weintraub¹, Andrew Doorey⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware.
² College of Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.
³ Department of Medicine, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware4Value Institute, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware4Value Institute, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware.

No abstract available

MeSH terms

American Heart Association
Arrhythmias, Cardiac / diagnosis*
Clinical Alarms / statistics & numerical data*
Diagnostic Errors / statistics & numerical data*
Electrocardiography / standards
Electrocardiography / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Retrospective Studies
Severity of Illness Index
Telemetry / standards
Telemetry / statistics & numerical data*
United States

Grants and funding

U54 GM104941/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States