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Designing an Efficient and Quality-focused Integrated Atrial Fibrillation Care Center
Best Practices: Best practices for developing an efficient and quality-focused AF ablation program as part of a larger AF center of excellence, highlighting the experience of a single center and demonstrating how the same principles were adopted to implement a similar program at another institution.
Patient in Room to Physician in Room
Data/Registries: This sample report shows performance over time of patient in room compared to physician in room and patient in room access compared to when the patient arrives in the lab.
Quality Tracking Tool – Lab Efficiency
Data/Registries: This spreadsheet can be used to track procedure times in the EP lab. Once compiled into a database, reporting can be provided to stakeholders each month with physician times.
Business Plan Electrophysiology Laboratory – Staffing/Volume Increase
Business Plans: Business Plan Electrophysiology Laboratory – Staffing/Volume Increase
Sample Electrophysiology Lab Business Plan Presentation to Admin
Business Plans: Extensive sample business plan presentation to utilize when advocating for an EP lab to administrative stakeholders. Includes AFib statistics, forecasted ablation growth, patient benefits, leadership strategy, and more.
Tamponade Checklist
Checklists: Helpful checklist for the care team when treating a patient with cardiac tamponade.
Cardiac Electrophysiology Preoperative Form/Checklist
Checklists: This Preoperative Checklist can be used by teams for all patients coming to the EP lab.
Atrial Fibrillation: Diagnosis and Management
Guidelines/Clinical Documents: The recommendations in this guideline represent the view of NICE, arrived at after careful consideration of the evidence available. When exercising their judgement, professionals and practitioners are expected to take this guideline fully into account, alongside the individual needs, preferences and values of their patients or the people using their service. It is not mandatory to apply the recommendations, and the guideline does not override the responsibility to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual, in consultation with them and their families and carers or guardian.
All problems (adverse events) related to a medicine or medical device used for treatment or in a procedure should be reported to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency using the Yellow Card Scheme.
Local commissioners and providers of healthcare have a responsibility to enable the guideline to be applied when individual professionals and people using services wish to use it. They should do so in the context of local and national priorities for funding and developing services, and in light of their duties to have due regard to the need to eliminate unlawful discrimination, to advance equality of opportunity and to reduce health inequalities. Nothing in this guideline should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with complying with those duties.
Commissioners and providers have a responsibility to promote an environmentally sustainable health and care system and should assess and reduce the environmental impact of implementing NICE recommendations wherever possible.
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.