HRS Moves From Successful Policy Meeting Toward Physician Guidelines
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The Heart Rhythm Society hopes to complete physician guidelines on managing device safety alerts by late spring 2006, according to the chair of the committee developing the guidelines, Mark Carlson, MD, Case Western Reserve University
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