Medicare and professional groups set strict eligibility criteria for which patients should receive devices in the first place, but "there are no meaningful guidelines for whose defibrillators should be replaced," because there's little evidence as to who would benefit.
RESULTS: 169 individuals have been screened for eligibility, of which 109 were eligible for the study.
169 individuals have been screened for eligibility, of which 109 were eligible for the study.
Of 1,104 records initially identified through the database searches, 490 abstracts were reviewed and 130 full text articles assessed for eligibility of which 41 were eligible for inclusion.
These estimates were based on the proportion of eligible households for which eligibility was assessed (AAPOR Response Rate 3 conventions; The American Association of Public Opinion Research, 2011).
Eighty full-text articles were assessed for eligibility, of which, 12 were selected for inclusion.
At this time, 169 individuals have been screened for eligibility of which 109 were eligible to take part in the study.
We assessed 364 patients for eligibility, of which 310 patients were excluded for the following reasons: 257 patients were excluded for not fulfilling the inclusion criteria, 2 patients decline not to participate and 51 patients for different reasons as described in detail in Fig. 1.
There was a relatively high number of cases assessed for eligibility from which insufficient amounts of tissue were available for the present study due to use for other studies.
944 Students were screened for eligibility of which the data of 194 students are reported.
