Tunis Presses NIH To Share ICD Study Findings; Dollens Claims Data Irrelevant
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CMS will contact the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute within the next two weeks to try to determine why SCD-HeFT study patients who met the MADIT-II trial criteria were not switched to the active ICD treatment arm
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