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COMPASS Patient Education Whiteboard Videos

Education – Clinical: Series of short, easy-to-understand patient videos from the HRS COMPASS project emphasizing Early Rhythm Management. Videos can be used with patients and caregivers to simplify overwhelming concepts such as:
What is Atrial Fibrillation?
What is Rhythm Control?
Why is Rhythm Control Important?

The COMPASS project is supported by Sanofi and Biosense Webster, Inc.


COMPASS Early Rhythm Management Webinar: Early Rhythm Control: The New Paradigm in Atrial Fibrillation

Education – Clinical: Join esteemed moderators and panelists to learn about a multidisciplinary approach to atrial fibrillation (AFib), different facets of AFib treatment, and the shift to early rhythm control for AFib management. Supported by Sanofi and Biosense Webster, these three complimentary webinars each contain thoughtful presentations, recorded Q&As with a panel of experts, and full transcripts. In this episode, Jason G. Andrade, MD, FHRS, T. Jared Bunch, MD, FHRS, Mina K. Chung, MD, FHRS, Thomas Deering, MD, MBA, FHRS, CCDS, Andrea Natale, MD, FHRS, and Jonathan P. Piccini, Sr., MD, MHS, FHRS, discuss clinical outcomes of EAST-AFNET 4 relating to mortality, stroke, and readmission, describe an ideal timeline for implementing rhythm control protocol, and join in a panel discussion with Andrea M. Russo, MD, FHRS.


COMPASS Early Rhythm Management Webinar: My Patient Has Atrial Fibrillation – What Now?

Education – Clinical: Join esteemed moderators and panelists to learn about a multidisciplinary approach to atrial fibrillation (AFib), different facets of AFib treatment, and the shift to early rhythm control for AFib management. Supported by Sanofi and Biosense Webster, these three complimentary webinars each contain thoughtful presentations, recorded Q&As with a panel of experts, and full transcripts. AFib patients can be seen and treated at multiple points in the healthcare system. In this episode, Thomas Deering, MD, MBA, FHRS, Thomas Deneke, MD, PhD, FHRS, Gerhard Hindricks, MD, Kathleen Kenny, MD, Nassir F. Marrouche, MD, FHRS, and Prashanthan Sanders, MBBS, PhD, FHRS, explore a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosing and treating AFib in a primary care or emergency medicine setting. This activity covers rhythm control options and includes a Q&A moderated by Andrea M. Russo, MD, FHRS.


COMPASS Early Rhythm Management Webinar: Different Facets of AFib Management

Education – Clinical: Join esteemed moderators and panelists to learn about a multidisciplinary approach to atrial fibrillation (AFib), different facets of AFib treatment, and the shift to early rhythm control for AFib management. Supported by Sanofi and Biosense Webster, these three complimentary webinars each contain thoughtful presentations, recorded Q&As with a panel of experts, and full transcripts. In this episode, Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD, FHRS, addresses the best rhythm control strategies for early intervention in AF patients, including new technologies to potentially improve ablation outcome, identifying patients most suitable for LAA occlusion, and how lifestyle changes impact the AF disease course. Additional presentations and a Q&A-based discussion are also included with John Allison, MD, Devi G. Nair, MD, FHRS, Sanghamitra Mohanty, MBBS, MD, MS, FHRS, and Andrea Natale, MD, FHRS.


AHRQ TeamSTEPPS (with Pocket Guide)

Education – Clinical: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety. This is an evidence-based set of teamwork tools, aimed at optimizing patient outcomes by improving communication and teamwork skills among healthcare teams, including patients and family caregivers. Program includes welcome guides, curriculum materials, a diagnosis improvement course, patient videos, measurement tools, and training simulation tools.


AHRQ TalkingQuality

Organizations for QI: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s TalkingQuality offers guidance on producing comparative information on health care quality that’s understandable and useful to consumers.


AHRQ Shared Decision Making

Education – Clinical: Education, training, implementation tools, and research related to shared decision making from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.


AHRQ Quality Measurement

Tools: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Quality improvement measurement tools and information, including AHRQ Quality Indicators Hospital Toolkit, ambulatory clinical performance measures, and Talking Quality.


AHRQ Pediatric Quality Measures Program

Organizations for QI: The AHRQ-CMS Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP) is a central component to the overall HHS strategy for implementing the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA), to support State Medicaid/CHIP agencies in collecting and reporting on a core set of standardized child health quality measures (“Initial Core Set” now called the “Child Core Set”) in alignment with other quality measures collected by states, health plans, and providers.


AHRQ Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

Organizations for QI: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality PCOR compares the impact of two or more preventive, diagnostic, treatment, or health care delivery approaches on health outcomes, including those that are meaningful to patients. Congress instructed AHRQ to …