Education: Patient / Caregiver
Education – Patient/Caregiver: Extensive collection of patient education sheets for 17 different medications used for anticoagulation, rate control, and rhythm control. Each sheet includes how to take the medication, potential interactions, side effects, and warnings.
Education – Patient/Caregiver: CHA2DS2-VASc and Your Risk of Stroke
Education – Patient/Caregiver: Two-page patient education resource explaining AFib, its causes, management and treatment. Includes a description of medications, procedures, and implantable devices, as well ask suggested lifestyle changes.
Checklists: Self-evaluation tool for patients to use in their management of diagnosed AFib. Includes additional resources and a place for notes.
Education – Patient/Caregiver: Use this guide to help you tell your doctors or nurse about changes in your symptoms; Recognizing your AF symptoms will help you better manage your health; When you notice your symptoms early and take action, you are less likely to have to go to the hospital for treatment
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.
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.
Organizations for QI: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers free tools to help prioritize concerns and maximize interactions between providers, patients, and families. Whether you see patients at a hospital, primary care office, or other setting, time is often limited and patients and family members who have prioritized their questions or concerns will experience the most meaningful, efficient visits. To help you and your patients get the most out of your time together, AHRQ offers these free resources that you can use with your team and share with your patients.
Education – Clinical: Calculates stroke risk for patients with atrial fibrillation, possibly better than the CHADS₂ Score.