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March 21, 2000Circulation1,606 citations

Canadian Implantable Defibrillator Study (CIDS)

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SCStuart J. ConnollyMGMichael GentRRRobin S. Roberts

Structured PICO

I
Intervention
ICD therapy
C
Comparator
amiodarone
O
Outcome
all-cause mortality and arrhythmic mortalityhard clinical

ICD therapy provided a non-statistically significant reduction in all-cause and arrhythmic mortality compared to amiodarone.

Abstract

A 20% relative risk reduction occurred in all-cause mortality and a 33% reduction occurred in arrhythmic mortality with ICD therapy compared with amiodarone; this reduction did not reach statistical significance.

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Connolly et al. (2000) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dbb1ea4e9a02dbaa6857aehttps://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.101.11.1297
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