Pitfalls of the concept of incremental specificity used in comparisons of dual chamber vt/vf detection algorithms.
The concepts of incremental specificity and incremental positive predictive accuracy (PPA) have been proposed to measure the success of dual chamber cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) algorithms for tachyarrhythmia detection in improving specificity while maintaining very high sensitivity to detection...
| Published in: | Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology Vol. 23; no. 7; pp. 1166 - 1171 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2000
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