title: Assessing the effectiveness of ambulatory cardiac monitoring for specific clinical indications. Introduction.
abstract: This introduction and the three essays that follow examine ambulatory cardiac monitoring for specific clinical indications. They also examine the ways in which evidence from the literature may be synthesized through the framework of decision analysis to guide its appropriate use and identify areas in which more research is needed. The essays discuss ambulatory cardiac monitoring for evaluation of syncope in the elderly; detection of silent ischemia after a myocardial infarction; and selection of antiarrhythmic drugs for malignant ventricular arrhythmias.
authors.affiliation: Harvard School of Public Health.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Adams
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Antczak-Bouckoms
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Frazier
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Chalmers
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mosteller
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000188:drug therapy*; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D013575:Syncope / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical
chemical_list: D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents