Risk stratification for sudden cardiac death: a plan for the future

Jeffrey J Goldberger1, Anirban Basu, Robin Boineau

  • 1Department of Medicine-Cardiology (J.J.G., A.H.K., R.P.), Department of Preventive Medicine (D.L.-J., R.P.), and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Medical Humanities and Bioethics (L.Z.), Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Department of Health Services and Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle (A.B.); National Institutes of Health, Washington DC (R.B.); Cardiovascular Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA (A.E.B.); Department of Medicine, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo (M.E.C., J.M.C.); Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indiana University, Indianapolis (P.-S.C., D.P.Z.); Cardiac Electrophysiology Research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (S.S.C.); Summa Health System Cardiovascular Institute, Cleveland, OH (O.C.); CON-ECT Clinical Coordinating Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (D.V.E.); Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (B.L., J.E.O.); Department of Medicine (A.J.M.), and Department of Medicine Cardiology (W.Z.), University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY; Department of Medicine, University of Miami Health System, Miami, FL (R.J.M.); Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA (W.G.S.); and Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD (G.F.T.).

Circulation
|January 29, 2014
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