European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS) expert consensus on risk assessment in cardiac arrhythmias: use the right tool for the right outcome, in the right population

JC Nielsen; YJ Lin; MJ de Oliveira Figueiredo; A Sepehri Shamloo; A Alfie; S Boveda; N Dagres; D Di Toro; LL Eckhardt; K Ellenbogen; C Hardy; T Ikeda; A Jaswal; E Kaufman; A Krahn; K Kusano; V Kutyifa; H S. Lim; GYH Lip; S Nava-Townsend; HN Pak; G Rodríguez Diez; W Sauer; A Saxena; JH Svendsen; D Vanegas; M Vaseghi; A Wilde; TJ Bunch

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European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS) expert consensus on risk assessment in cardiac arrhythmias: use the right tool for the right outcome, in the right population

JC Nielsen, YJ Lin, MJ de Oliveira Figueiredo, A Sepehri Shamloo, A Alfie, S Boveda, N Dagres, D Di Toro, LL Eckhardt, K Ellenbogen, C Hardy, T Ikeda, A Jaswal, E Kaufman, A Krahn, K Kusano, V Kutyifa, H S. Lim, GYH Lip, S Nava-Townsend Show all

Journal of Arrhythmia | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2020

DOI: 10.1002/joa3.12338

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Abstract

In clinical practice and for scientific purposes, cardiologists and primary care physicians perform risk assessment in patients with cardiac diseases or conditions with high risk of developing such. The European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), and the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS) set down this expert consensus statement task force to summarize the consensus regarding risk assessment in cardiac arrhythmias. Objectives were to raise awareness of using the right risk assessment tool for a given outcome in a given population, and to provide physicians with practical proposals that may lead to rational and evid..

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