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James Coromilas, MD

JAMA. 2009;301(16):1713-1714.

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On January 27, 2005, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published the national coverage decision, which expanded indications for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation based largely on the results of the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial.¹ The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services required that patients receiving an ICD for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death be enrolled in a registry.² Under the leadership of the Heart Rhythm Society and the American College of Cardiology Foundation, the National ICD Registry was developed.³

Hospitals have been encouraged not to limit the registry to Medicare beneficiaries but to include all ICD recipients in the registry. In fact, approximately 75% of hospitals have elected to enter all ICD implantations into the registry and 88% of all implants have been included in the registry. Approximately 10 000 ICD implants are added to the registry each month and as of June . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Hypertension, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick.

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