ABC (Atrial fibrillation Better Care) Pathway and Healthcare Costs in Atrial Fibrillation: The ATHERO-AF Study.

@article{Pastori2019ABCF,
  title={ABC (Atrial fibrillation Better Care) Pathway and Healthcare Costs in Atrial Fibrillation: The ATHERO-AF Study.},
  author={Daniele Pastori and Alessio Farcomeni and Pasquale Pignatelli and Francesco Violi and Gregory Y. H. Lip},
  journal={The American journal of medicine},
  year={2019},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:58543082}
}
View on PubMed
afarcome.altervista.org
71 Citations
Highly Influential Citations
1
Background Citations
12
Methods Citations
3
Results Citations
1

71 Citations

The Atrial fibrillation Better Care (ABC) pathway and cardiac complications in atrial fibrillation: a potential sex-based difference. The ATHERO-AF study.

The Atrial Fibrillation Better Care (ABC) Pathway and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: the Prospective Murcia AF Project Phase II Cohort

In this real-world prospective cohort of AF patients starting VKA therapy, adherence to the ABC pathway management at baseline significantly reduced the risk of NCOs, all-cause mortality, and cardiovascular death at 2 years.

Clinical complexity and impact of the ABC (Atrial fibrillation Better Care) pathway in patients with atrial fibrillation: a report from the ESC-EHRA EURObservational Research Programme in AF General Long-Term Registry

An ABC-adherent approach reduces the risk of major outcomes in clinically complex AF patients and Ensuring adherence to the ABC pathway is essential to improve clinical outcomes among clinically complex patients.

Compliance of Atrial Fibrillation Treatment with the Atrial Fibrillation Better Care (ABC) Pathway Improves the Clinical Outcomes in the Middle East Population: A Report from the Gulf Survey of Atrial Fibrillation Events (SAFE) Registry

Integrated ABC pathway adherent care resulted in the reduced composite outcome and all-cause mortality in AF patients from Middle East, highlighting the necessity of promoting comprehensive holistic and integrated care management of AF.

Adherence to the Atrial Fibrillation Better Care (ABC) pathway and the risk of major outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation: A post-hoc analysis from the prospective GLORIA-AF Registry

Incidence of All-Cause, Cardiovascular, and Atrial Fibrillation-Related Hospitalizations

Managing the Increasing Burden of Atrial Fibrillation through Integrated Care in Primary Care: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

The higher costs from extra primary care consultations were likely outweighed by cost reductions for other resources, yet this study doesn’t give sufficient clarity on the cost-effectiveness of integrated AF care.

Adherence to the ‘Atrial Fibrillation Better Care’ Pathway in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: Impact on Clinical Outcomes—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 285,000 Patients

Adherence to the ABC pathway was suboptimal, being adopted in one in every five patients, and was associated with a reduction in the risk of major adverse outcomes.

Mobile Health Technology to Improve Care for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation.

Adherence to the ABC (Atrial fibrillation Better Care) Pathway in the Balkan region: the BALKAN-AF Survey.

Physicians' adherence to integrated AF management based on the ABC pathway was suboptimal in the study and addressing the identified clinical  and system-related factors associated with non-adherent-"A+B+C" management using _targeted approaches is needed to optimize treatment of AF patients in the Balkan region.
...

21 References

Integrated Care Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Risk of Cardiovascular Events: The ABC (Atrial fibrillation Better Care) Pathway in the ATHERO-AF Study Cohort.

Improved Outcomes by Integrated Care of Anticoagulated Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Using the Simple ABC (Atrial Fibrillation Better Care) Pathway.

Burden of stroke and other cardiovascular complications in patients with atrial fibrillation hospitalized in France

Half a million patients with AF were hospitalized in France in 2012, with stroke/TIA/SE represented costly, but potentially preventable, complications, and the annual total cost was €1.94 billion.

Societal Costs of First-Incident Ischemic Stroke in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation-A Danish Nationwide Registry Study.

Incidence of myocardial infarction and vascular death in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation taking anticoagulants: relation to atherosclerotic risk factors.

A holistic approach is needed to reduce the cardiovascular risk in patients with AF, which still experience a high rate of CVEs despite receiving anticoagulant treatment.

Regional Differences in Antithrombotic Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation: Insights from the GLORIA-AF Phase II Registry

Substantial inter- and intra-regional differences in ATT for stroke prevention in AF are evident in this global registry, and NOACs are the main contributor to high OAC use worldwide.

Management of atrial fibrillation: easy as ABC.

This review presents the ABC Pathway for the holistic, integrated management of patients diagnosed with AF: "A" avoid stroke with anticoagulation; "B" for better symptom management with patient-centered, symptom directed decisions on rate or rhythm control; and "C" cardiovascular and comorbidity risk reduction, including lifestyle factors and psychological morbidity.

Burden of Atrial Fibrillation-Associated Ischemic Stroke in the United States.

Acute myocardial infarction in patients with atrial fibrillation with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 or 1: a nationwide cohort study.

Atrial Fibrillation and Risk of ST-Segment–Elevation Versus Non–ST-Segment–Elevation Myocardial Infarction: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

AF is associated with an increased risk of incident MI, especially in women, but this association is limited to NSTEMI, which is stronger in women than in men.

Related Papers

Showing 1 through 3 of 0 Related Papers