Diagnostic yield and financial implications of a nationwide electrocardiographic screening programme to detect cardiac disease in the young.
Harshil DhutiaAneil MalhotraGherardo FinocchiaroSameer ParpiaRaghav BhatiaAndrew D'SilvaSabiha GatiGreg J MellorRajay NarainNavin ChandraElijah BehrMaría Teresa Tomé-EstebanMichael PapadakisSanjay SharmaPublished in: 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 (2021)
The inclusion of an ECG to a health questionnaire is associated with a five-fold increase in the ability to detect disease associated with SCD in young individuals and is more cost effective for detecting serious disease compared with screening with a health questionnaire alone.