This book provides quantitative validated rules for evaluating serial ECG change. Just as the
original Minnesota Code uses specified measurement rules to reduce coding variability and a
systematic code to indicate these measurements serial comparison uses a set of measurement
rules and a systematic code to document categories of ECG pattern changes. These criteria
classify ECG change as No change significant increase or significant decrease in specific
waveform characteristics. Unlike clinical ECG comparison this procedure provides change
criteria independent of clinical judgement that have also been validated for their prognostic
significance for cardiac endpoints. Updated to reflect changes in understanding over the last
20 years this title provides the benchmark for coding in electrocardiographic applications.
