Benefits of implantable defibrillators are overestimated by sudden death rates and better represented by the total arrhythmic death rate
- 30 June 1991
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of the American College of Cardiology
- Vol. 17 (7), 1587-1592
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0735-1097(91)90652-p
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