Table 2

Simulated arrhythmia detection data and analysis

Simulated arrhythmia
Ventricular tachycardiaSinus bradycardiaVentricular tachycardia+sinus bradycardia
Programme phaseNon-detectionDetectionSensitivity, % (n)*p†Non-detectionDetectionSensitivity, % (n)*p†Non-detectionDetectionSensitivity, % (n)*p†
 Pre-intervention (Npre=20)9110 (10)⌉ 0.077 ⌋⌉ | | 0.006 | | ⌋1000 (10)⌉ 0.333 ⌋⌉ | | 0.210 | | ⌋1915 (20)0.031⌉ | | 0.001 | | ⌋
 Intervention Implementation (Interim) (Nint=10)2360 (5)4120 (5)6440 (10)
 Post-intervention (Npost=20)2880 (10)7330 (10)91155 (20)
  • *Study sessions only assessed for simulated arrhythmia detection, that is, there were no ‘non-event’ sessions to elicit true negative alarms and false positive alarms for system specificity analysis.

  • †2-Tailed Fisher's exact test, α=0.05.