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- Title
Hot Off the Press: A Novel Algorithm to Decrease Unnecessary Hospitalizations in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation.
- Authors
Morgenstern, Justin; Heitz, Corey; Bond, Chris; Milne, William K.; Choo, Esther K.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the need for implementation of an algorithm inorder to decrease the hospitalization of patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib) in the emergency department (ED). It talks about the patients with AFib in Canada are treated as outpatients inorder to reduce the hospitalization rates. It tells about the algorithm to manage the patients with AFib when treated as inpatients.
- Subjects
ATRIAL fibrillation diagnosis; ATRIAL fibrillation prevention; PULMONARY embolism; SEPSIS; ALGORITHMS; HEART failure; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL care; HOSPITAL admission &; discharge; HOSPITAL emergency services; LONGITUDINAL method; MEDICAL appointments; PATIENTS; QUALITY assurance; SYNCOPE; SOCIAL media; RETROSPECTIVE studies; ACUTE coronary syndrome; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018, Vol 25, Issue 11, p1284
- ISSN
1069-6563
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/acem.13514