title: Are the benefits of the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD) overestimated by sudden death rate?
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Henthorn
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Waller
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Hiratzka
mesh_terms: D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D004554:Electric Countershock / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy