Effectiveness of an algorithm‐based care pathway for patients with non‐valvular atrial fibrillation presenting to the emergency department

• Published in: Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. e12608 - n/a
• Main Authors: Masica, Andrew, Brown, Rachel, Farzad, Ali, Garrett, John S., Wheelan, Kevin, Nguyen, Hoa L., Ogola, Gerald O., Kudyakov, Rustam, McDonald, Brandy, Boyd, Bethany, Patel, Avani, Delaughter, Craig
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.02.2022; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Algorithms; atrial fibrillation; Cardiac arrhythmia; Cardiology; clinical effectiveness; clinical variability; Documentation; Electronic health records; Evidence‐Based Emergency Medicine; Feedback; Hospitals; Intervention; Medical referrals; Online tutorials; Original Research; Patients; Peers; Physicians; quality improvement; clinical effectiveness; atrial fibrillation; clinical variability; quality improvement

Objective Atrial fibrillation (AF) carries substantial morbidity and mortality. Evidence‐based guidelines have been synthesized into emergency department (ED) AF care pathways, but the effectiveness and scalability of such approaches are not well established. We thus evaluated the impacts of an algo...