Usefulness of clinical characteristics in predicting the outcome of electrophysiologic studies in unexplained syncope☆
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This project was supported in part by BRSG Grant 507-RR05598-22 from the Biomedical Research Support Program, Division of Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and was presented in part at the annual meetings of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology, Washington, D.C., in May 1991.