AF Tools
ACC/AHA/ESC Guidelines for Management of Patients with Atrial
Fibrillation
AFib is increasing in prevalence as the population ages. Accordingly, the American
College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA), and the European
Society of Cardiology (ESC) created a committee of experts to establish guidelines
for management of this arrhythmia. These Guidelines were last updated in 2006.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Atrial Fibrillation Fact Sheet
The CDC provides a fact sheet about AFib that includes an overview of AFib related hospitalizations across the country, information on the CDC public health efforts related to AFib and links to other AFib resources.
IOM's Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research
On June 30, 2009 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report titled
Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research,
an analysis that the IOM was charged with through the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009.
Atrial Fibrillation is listed among the top 25 priorities (First Quartile) for CER and the report states
that CER for AFib is needed to “Compare the effectiveness of treatment strategies
for atrial fibrillation including surgery, catheter ablation, and pharmacologic
treatment.”
