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Cost-effectiveness of a photopethysmographic procedure for screening for atrial fibrillation in 6 European countries

BACKGROUND: Strokes cause an estimated annual health care burden of 170 billion euros across Europe. Atrial fibrillation is one of the major risk factors for stroke and increases the individual risk 4.2-fold. But prevention with anticoagulants may reduce this risk by 70%. Screening methods are emplo...

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Autores principales: Wahler, Steffen, Birkemeyer, Ralf, Alexopoulos, Dimitrios, Siudak, Zbigniew, Müller, Alfred, von der Schulenburg, Johann-Matthias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8882287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35218421
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13561-022-00362-2