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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

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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) (i.e., Class-1 oral anticoagulation [OAC] treatment recommendation) in each age stratum. If the NNS-Rx is known for each age stratum, precise cost-effectiveness and sensitivity simulations can be performed based on the age distribution of the popul...

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10.1371/journal.pmed.1002903

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0000-0001-9061-3406
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Public Library of Science
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Volume:
16
Issue:
9
Pages:
e1002903
Publication date:
2019-09-25
Acceptance date:
2019-08-21
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EISSN:
1549-1676
ISSN:
1549-1277
Pmid:
31553733


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English
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pubs:1056719
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2019-10-17

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