• Estimated stroke risk, yield, and number needed to screen for atrial fibrillation detected through single time screening: a multicountry patient-level meta-analysis of 141,220 screened individuals. 

      Lowres, Nicole; Olivier, Jake; Chao, Tze-Fan; Chen, Shih-Ann; Chen, Yi; Diederichsen, Axel; Fitzmaurice, David A.; Gómez Doblas, Juan José; Harbison, Joseph; Healey, Jeff S.; Hobbs, F. D. Richard; Kaasenbrood, Femke; Keen, William; Lee, Vivian W.; Lindholt, Jes S.; Lip, Gregory; Mairesse, Georges H.; Mant, Jonathan; Martin, Julie W.; Martín-Rioboo, Enrique; McManus, David D.; Muñiz, Javier; MünzelI, Thomas; Nakamya, Juliet; Neubeck, Lis; Quinn, F. Russell; Roalfe, Andrea K.; Sandhu, Roopinder K.; Schnabel, Renate B.; Smyth, Breda; Soni, Apurv; Tieleman, Robert; Wang, Jiguang; Wild, Philipp S.; Yan, Bryan P.; Freedman, Ben (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-09-25)
      [Abstract] Background. The precise age distribution and calculated stroke risk of screen-detected atrial fibrillation (AF) is not known. Therefore, it is not possible to determine the number needed to screen (NNS) ...