Best Practices

Heparin Dosing Nomogram for EP Lab

The document provides a heparin dosing nomogram for use in an Electrophysiology (EP) Lab, specifying dosage protocols based on activated clotting time (ACT) and patient weight. It includes instructions for…

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AF Center and HRS QI Provider Inservice

Education – Clinical: Provider education presentation including AFib and anticoagulation overview, rate control care pathway, suggested AFib patient education, and ED algorithm.

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2019 AHA/ACC/HRS Focused Update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

Guidelines/Clinical Documents: 2019 AHA/ACC/HRS Focused Update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

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SOP Acute Therapy Stroke

Best Practices: SOP for acute therapeutic treatment of stroke. Includes decision tree and exclusion criteria for thrombolysis.

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My Atrial Fibrillation Treatment Plan

Best Practices: Interactive worksheet to utilize with patients when discussing their individualized AFib treatment plan. Addresses stroke risk, procedure recommendations, rate and rhythm management, and risk factor modification.

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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.

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AHRQ Making Healthcare Safer Reports

Best Practices: Reports to help inform best practices in a variety of settings across the health care system. AHRQ consolidates information for healthcare providers, health system administrators, researchers, and government agencies to improve patient safety.

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AHRQ Evidence-based Centers Program

Organizations for QI: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created the Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) in 1997 to conduct evidence reports for the Effective Health Care (EHC) Program. In December 2019, the latest 5-year contracts were awarded to 9 EPCs. The EPCs are housed at universities, medical centers, and research institutions in the United States. The EPCs produce evidence reports on medications, devices, and other health care services for the EHC Program with the goal of helping consumers, health care professionals, and policymakers make informed and evidence-based health care decisions.

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Implementing Improvements: Opportunities to Integrate Quality Improvement and Implementation Science

Guidelines/Clinical Documents: In hospitals, improvers and implementers use quality improvement science (QIS) and less frequently implementation research (IR) to improve health care and health outcomes. Narrowly defined quality improvement (QI) guided by QIS focuses on transforming…

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2020 Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Canadian Heart Rhythm Society Comprehensive Guidelines for the Management of Atrial Fibrillation (Andrade et al, Can J Cardiol [CJC] 2020 and SUPPL)

Guidelines/Clinical Documents: Guidelines from CCS to inform best practices for clinicians across all disciplines while treating AFib patients. This document should be an important aid for knowledge translation and a tool to help improve clinical management of this important and challenging arrhythmia.

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