Atrial Fibrillation
Journal Articles: In this issue of Heart Rhythm Journal, we summarize key publications of relevance to the electrophysiology community regarding the use of system-based processes to improve heart rhythm care and outcomes for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). The featured research highlights challenges in improving the rate of guideline-directed anticoagulation to prevent stroke for high-risk patients with AF, including the benefits and limitations of the use of shared decision-making tools. This summary also reports on efforts to identify additional quality indicators to measure AF care and outcomes.
Read MoreJournal Articles: In this issue of Heart Rhythm Journal we continue this quarterly feature highlighting important developments and advances in quality improvement or systems-based practice improvement in the delivery of heart rhythm care. This issue focuses on quality improvement surrounding atrial fibrillation (AF) and highlights some opportunities for measuring, reporting, and improving the quality of heart rhythm care for AF.
Read MoreJournal Articles: In this issue of Heart Rhythm Journal, we present recent publications relevant to quality of care and outcomes, particularly in relation to physician burnout.
Read MoreJournal Articles: Pharmacists have a unique role and responsibility in an individual’s care, especially for those with chronic disease. Insights into how pharmacy fellows can be engaged to assess and improve guideline-concordant anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation (AF) were gathered from a quality improvement project sponsored by the Heart Rhythm Society, in collaboration with the University of Florida.
Read MoreJournal Articles: This article continues the series of Heart Rhythm Journal quarterly features highlighting science relevant to quality improvement. The focus of this feature is practice improvement surrounding the use and implementation of cardioversion in the treatment of atrial fibrillation. The featured research investigates different approaches to the timing and performance of cardioversion to improve efficacy, labor,
and cost.
Journal Articles: In this issue of Heart Rhythm, we present recent publications relevant to quality of care and outcomes, particularly in relation to clinical decision support and shared decision making.
Read MoreJournal Articles: Understanding the quality of atrial fibrillation (AF) care delivery is critically important for identifying care gaps, targeting improvement efforts, and guiding resource allocation. In this effort, several professional societies have defined a series of AF quality indicators (QIs) that can be used to monitor adherence to evidence-based processes and AF-related outcomes. In Canada, this effort has been led by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS). On behalf of the CCS AF QI Working Group, in this issue of Heart Rhythm Journal, we summarize our process for defining and measuring AF QIs, present 2 recent publications reporting national data on key AF Qis, and discuss challenges encountered and future directions.
Read MoreGuidelines/Clinical Documents: AHA’s Get With The Guidelines® – AFIB Registry Tool
Read MoreTools: Use the updated AnticoagEvaluator to make informed decisions on initiation of antithrombotic therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who do not have moderate to severe mitral stenosis or a mechanical heart valve. App updates include expanded advice from the 2019 Focused Update to the 2014 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients with AF.
Read MoreShared Decision-Making: Video demonstrations to support in-person conversations between clinicians and their AFib patients. Includes explanation of normal rhythm vs. AFib, stroke risk, blood thinners, and the WATCHMAN device.
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