Estimated stroke risk, yield, and number needed to screen for atrial fibrillation detected through single time screening: a multicountry patient-level meta-analysis of 141,220 screened individuals
(2019)
Journal Article
Lowres, N., Olivier, J., Chao, T.-F., Chen, S.-A., Chen, Y., Diederichsen, A., Fitzmaurice, D. A., Gomez-Doblas, J. J., Harbison, J., Healey, J. S., Hobbs, F. D. R., Kaasenbrood, F., Keen, W., Lee, V. W., Lindholt, J. S., Lip, G. Y. H., Mairesse, G. H., Mant, J., Martin, J. W., Martín-Rioboó, E., …Freedman, B. (2019). Estimated stroke risk, yield, and number needed to screen for atrial fibrillation detected through single time screening: a multicountry patient-level meta-analysis of 141,220 screened individuals. PLOS Medicine, 16(9), Article e1002903. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002903
Background
The precise age distribution and calculated stroke risk of screen-detected atrial fibrillation (AF) is not known. Therefore, it is not possible to determine the number needed to screen (NNS) to identify one treatable new AF case (NNS-Rx...
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