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. 2018 Oct 17:11:377-378.
doi: 10.2147/MDER.S181474. eCollection 2018.

Comments on the authors' reply to the critical appraisal concerning "Wearable cardioverter defibrillators for the prevention of sudden cardiac arrest: a health technology assessment and patient focus group study"

Johannes Sperzel  1 , Ingo Staudacher  2 , Olaf Goeing  3 , Martin Stockburger  4 , Thorsten Meyer  5 , Ana Sofia Oliveira Gonçalves  6 , Hanna Sydow  6 , Tonio Schoenfelder  6 , Volker Amelung  6
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Comments on the authors' reply to the critical appraisal concerning "Wearable cardioverter defibrillators for the prevention of sudden cardiac arrest: a health technology assessment and patient focus group study"

Johannes Sperzel et al. Med Devices (Auckl). .
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Disclosure Johannes Sperzel is employed by Hospital Kerckhoff Klinik GmbH, Ingo Staudacher is employed by Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Olaf Goeing is employed by Sana-Hospital Lichtenberg, Martin Stockburger is employed by Havelland Kliniken GmbH, and Thorsten Meyer is employed by Universität Bielefeld; none of these authors received financial support for contributing to the writing of this letter. Ana Sofia Oliveira Gonçalves, Hanna Sydow, Tonio Schoenfelder, and Volker Amelung are employed by inav – privates Institut für angewandte Versorgungsforsc-hung GmbH [inav – Institute for Applied Health Services Research GmbH]; these four authors received financial support from Zoll GmbH for contributing to the writing of this letter. The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this communication.

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  • Med Devices (Auckl). 39:119.

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