Comparable ascertainment of newly-diagnosed atrial fibrillation using active cohort follow-up versus surveillance of centers for medicare and medicaid services in the atherosclerosis risk in communities study.

Comparable ascertainment of newly-diagnosed atrial fibrillation using active cohort follow-up versus surveillance of centers for medicare and medicaid services in the atherosclerosis risk in communities study.

Increasingly, epidemiologic studies use administrative data to identify atrial fibrillation (AF). Capture of incident AF is not well documented. We examined incidence rates and concordance of AF diagnosis based on active cohort follow-up versus surveillance of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servi...

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Main Authors: Lindsay G S Bengtson, Anna Kucharska-Newton, Lisa M Wruck, Laura R Loehr, Aaron R Folsom, Lin Y Chen, Wayne D Rosamond, Sue Duval, Pamela L Lutsey, Sally C Stearns, Carla Sueta, Hsin-Chieh Yeh, Ervin Fox, Alvaro Alonso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3984174?pdf=render

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