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Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Primary Care Pathway
Care Pathways/CDS: Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Primary Care Pathway from NHS South London, including decision making support and timelines.
AFib Clinic Script
Education – Patients/Caregiver: A comprehensive guide for AFib providers to use in conversations with patients and caregivers. The AFib Clinic Script contains helpful graphics, charts, and explanations to clarify what AFib is, how it progresses, and how it’s treated.
AF Clinic Same Day CT TEE DCCV
Workflows: A visual workflow to guide AF clinics in same day CT/transesophageal cardiogram, and CT/direct current cardioversion procedures.
Acute vs. Non Acute Referral Pathways
Referral Pathways: OhioHealth’s referral pathways for treating acute vs. non-acute AFib patients.
2023 HRS/EHRA/APHRS/LAHRS expert consensus statement on practical management of the remote device clinic
Guidelines/Clinical Documents: Remote monitoring is beneficial for the management of patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices by impacting morbidity and mortality. With increasing numbers of patients using remote monitoring, keeping up with higher volume of remote monitoring transmissions creates challenges for device clinic staff. This international multidisciplinary document is intended to guide cardiac electrophysiologists, allied professionals, and hospital administrators in managing remote monitoring clinics. This includes guidance for remote monitoring clinic staffing, appropriate clinic workflows, patient education, and alert management. This expert consensus statement also addresses other topics such as communication of transmission results, use of third-party resources, manufacturer responsibilities, and programming concerns. The goal is to provide evidence-based recommendations impacting all aspects of remote monitoring services. Gaps in current knowledge and guidance for future research directions are also identified.
Quality Improvement Organizations
Organizations for QI: The Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Program serves people with Medicare, health care providers and communities. All initiatives are designed to improve health care quality, access, value and equity for people with Medicare. Find blogs, events, toolkits, and other resources.
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Organizations for QI: Resources for measuring quality improvement, an extensive list of quality programs, tools for stakeholder engagement, and helpful definitions in QI work.
CDC Performance Management & Quality Management
Organizations for QI: Concepts, resources, and links provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intended to support state, tribal, local and territorial health departments as they head down the path of improving their performance. Find data & benchmarks, definitions & concepts, The Public Health Improvement Journey, Stories from the Field, and other resources.
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Organizations for QI: Resource for patients; research about medical treatments/services/practices to help make better informed decisions and promote patient engagement.