{"title":"Predicting antiarrhythmic drug efficacy.","authors":"J W Mason","doi":"10.1080/21548331.1994.11443069","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For years, electrophysiologic testing was regarded as the best way to select effective pharmacologic therapy. But now it appears that Holter monitoring is just as accurate--as well as simpler, safer, and cheaper. Nevertheless, most patients eventually will need an electrophysiologic study because of the high rate of arrhythmia recurrence.</p>","PeriodicalId":77164,"journal":{"name":"Hospital practice (Office ed.)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1994-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21548331.1994.11443069","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Hospital practice (Office ed.)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21548331.1994.11443069","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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For years, electrophysiologic testing was regarded as the best way to select effective pharmacologic therapy. But now it appears that Holter monitoring is just as accurate--as well as simpler, safer, and cheaper. Nevertheless, most patients eventually will need an electrophysiologic study because of the high rate of arrhythmia recurrence.