Best Practices
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.
Read MoreBest 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.
Read MoreOrganizations 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.
Read MoreImplementing 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…
Read MoreGuidelines/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.
Read MoreGuidelines/Clinical Documents: Guidelines document outlining best practices for oral anticoagulation in patients with nonvalvular AFib and a CHA2DS2-VASc Score of 1.
Read MoreGuidelines/Clinical Documents: To review the evidence and provide clinical recommendations for the pharmacologic management of atrial fibrillation. Methods: This guideline is based on two systematic reviews of published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and prospective and retrospective observational studies from 2000 to 2012. An updated literature search was performed to identify new studies from 2012 to December 31, 2015. The targeted audience for the guideline includes all primary care clinicians, and the targeted patient population includes adults who have nonvalvular atrial fibrillation that is not due to a reversible cause. This guideline was developed using a modified version of GRADE to evaluate the quality of the evidence and make recommendations based on the balance of benefits and harms.
Read MoreGuidelines/Clinical Documents: Guidelines document outlining best practices for the primary prevention of stroke among individuals who have not previously experienced a stroke or transient ischemic attack.
Read MoreGuidelines/Clinical Documents: This best practices clinical document is a 2017 update to the 2012 consensus statement on catheter and surgical AF ablation, to reflect the many advances in tools, techniques and outcomes of AF ablation. The document is a collaborative effort with HRS, EHRA, ECAS, APHRS, and SOLAECE.
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