A roadmap to improve the quality of atrial fibrillation management: proceedings from the fifth Atrial Fibrillation Network/European Heart Rhythm Association consensus conference

TY - JOUR

T1 - A roadmap to improve the quality of atrial fibrillation management: proceedings from the fifth Atrial Fibrillation Network/European Heart Rhythm Association consensus conference

AU - Kirchhof, Paulus

AU - Breithardt, Günter

AU - Bax, Jeroen

AU - Benninger, Gerlinde

AU - Blomstrom-Lundqvist, Carina

AU - Boriani, Giuseppe

AU - Brandes, Axel

AU - Brown, Helen

AU - Brueckmann, Martina

AU - Calkins, Hugh

AU - Calvert, Melanie

AU - Christoffels, Vincent

AU - Crijns, Harry

AU - Dobrev, Dobromir

AU - Ellinor, Patrick

AU - Fabritz, Larissa

AU - Fetsch, Thomas

AU - Freedman, S Ben

AU - Gerth, Andrea

AU - Goette, Andreas

AU - Guasch, Eduard

AU - Hack, Guido

AU - Haegeli, Laurent

AU - Hatem, Stephane

AU - Haeusler, Karl Georg

AU - Heidbüchel, Hein

AU - Heinrich-Nols, Jutta

AU - Hidden-Lucet, Francoise

AU - Hindricks, Gerd

AU - Juul-Möller, Steen

AU - Kääb, Stefan

AU - Kappenberger, Lukas

AU - Kespohl, Stefanie

AU - Kotecha, Dipak

AU - Lane, Deirdre A

AU - Leute, Angelika

AU - Lewalter, Thorsten

AU - Meyer, Ralf

AU - Mont, Lluis

AU - Münzel, Felix

AU - Nabauer, Michael

AU - Nielsen, Jens C

AU - Oeff, Michael

AU - Oldgren, Jonas

AU - Oto, Ali

AU - Piccini, Jonathan P

AU - Pilmeyer, Art

AU - Potpara, Tatjana

AU - Ravens, Ursula

AU - Reinecke, Holger

AU - Rostock, Thomas

AU - Rustige, Joerg

AU - Savelieva, Irene

AU - Schnabel, Renate

AU - Schotten, Ulrich

AU - Schwichtenberg, Lars

AU - Sinner, Moritz F

AU - Steinbeck, Gerhard

AU - Stoll, Monika

AU - Tavazzi, Luigi

AU - Themistoclakis, Sakis

AU - Tse, Hung Fat

AU - Van Gelder, Isabelle C

AU - Vardas, Panagiotis E

AU - Varpula, Timo

AU - Vincent, Alphons

AU - Werring, David

AU - Willems, Stephan

AU - Ziegler, André

AU - Lip, Gregory Y H

AU - Camm, A John

N1 - Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2015. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.

PY - 2016/1

Y1 - 2016/1

N2 - At least 30 million people worldwide carry a diagnosis of atrial fibrillation (AF), and many more suffer from undiagnosed, subclinical, or 'silent' AF. Atrial fibrillation-related cardiovascular mortality and morbidity, including cardiovascular deaths, heart failure, stroke, and hospitalizations, remain unacceptably high, even when evidence-based therapies such as anticoagulation and rate control are used. Furthermore, it is still necessary to define how best to prevent AF, largely due to a lack of clinical measures that would allow identification of treatable causes of AF in any given patient. Hence, there are important unmet clinical and research needs in the evaluation and management of AF patients. The ensuing needs and opportunities for improving the quality of AF care were discussed during the fifth Atrial Fibrillation Network/European Heart Rhythm Association consensus conference in Nice, France, on 22 and 23 January 2015. Here, we report the outcome of this conference, with a focus on (i) learning from our 'neighbours' to improve AF care, (ii) patient-centred approaches to AF management, (iii) structured care of AF patients, (iv) improving the quality of AF treatment, and (v) personalization of AF management. This report ends with a list of priorities for research in AF patients.

AB - At least 30 million people worldwide carry a diagnosis of atrial fibrillation (AF), and many more suffer from undiagnosed, subclinical, or 'silent' AF. Atrial fibrillation-related cardiovascular mortality and morbidity, including cardiovascular deaths, heart failure, stroke, and hospitalizations, remain unacceptably high, even when evidence-based therapies such as anticoagulation and rate control are used. Furthermore, it is still necessary to define how best to prevent AF, largely due to a lack of clinical measures that would allow identification of treatable causes of AF in any given patient. Hence, there are important unmet clinical and research needs in the evaluation and management of AF patients. The ensuing needs and opportunities for improving the quality of AF care were discussed during the fifth Atrial Fibrillation Network/European Heart Rhythm Association consensus conference in Nice, France, on 22 and 23 January 2015. Here, we report the outcome of this conference, with a focus on (i) learning from our 'neighbours' to improve AF care, (ii) patient-centred approaches to AF management, (iii) structured care of AF patients, (iv) improving the quality of AF treatment, and (v) personalization of AF management. This report ends with a list of priorities for research in AF patients.

KW - Atrial Fibrillation/diagnosis

KW - Cardiology/standards

KW - Critical Pathways/standards

KW - Europe

KW - Humans

KW - Practice Guidelines as Topic

KW - Quality Improvement/standards

U2 - 10.1093/europace/euv304

DO - 10.1093/europace/euv304

M3 - SCORING: Review article

C2 - 26481149

VL - 18

SP - 37

EP - 50

JO - EUROPACE

JF - EUROPACE

SN - 1099-5129

IS - 1

ER -