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Improving usual care after sudden death in the young with focus on inherited cardiac diseases (the CAREFUL study): a community-based intervention study.
Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology - 1 Apr 2016
van der Werf Christian, Hendrix Anneke, Birnie Erwin, Bots Michiel L, Vink Aryan, Bardai Abdennasser, Blom Marieke T, Bosch Jan, Bruins Wendy, Das C Kees, Koster Rudolph W, Naujocks Tatjana, Schaap Balthasar, Tan Hanno L, de Vos Ronald, de Vries Philip, Woonink Frits, Doevendans Pieter A, van Weert Henk C, Wilde Arthur A M, Mosterd Arend, van Langen Irene M
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AIMS: Inherited cardiac diseases play an important role in sudden death (SD) in the young. Autopsy and cardiogenetic evaluation of relatives of young SD victims identifies relatives at risk. We studied the usual care after SD in the young aimed at identifying inherited cardiac disease, and assessed the efficacy of two interventions to improve this usual care. METHODS AND RESULTS: We conducted a community-based...
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