Response to: The paradox of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: When guidelines play against care improvement

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2241 Sears Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19146.
• ² Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
• ³ Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC.
• ⁴ Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC; Division of Cardiology, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
• ⁵ Division of Cardiology, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.