Inpatient vs. elective outpatient cardiac resynchronization therapy device implantation and long-term clinical outcome.

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Published in Europace on September 18, 2010

Authors

Olujimi A Ajijola1, Eric A Macklin, Stephanie A Moore, David McCarty, Kara E Bischoff, Edwin Kevin Heist, Michael Picard, Jeremy N Ruskin, George William Dec, Jagmeet P Singh

Author Affiliations

1: Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, GRB 109, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

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