Abstract 175: Atrial Fibrillation in the USF Resident Clinics: Quality-Driven Medical Therapy [Session Title: Poster Session AM]

Patients with atrial fibrillation (afib) have a high rate of serious complications including stroke and decompensated heart failure. While patients with afib are five times more likely to suffer a stroke in their lifetime than the general population, this risk can be reduced by 64% with appropriate anticoagulation using warfarin or approved novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs). Reducing the morbidity and mortality from excess strokes is a common interest nationwide due to unsustainable healthcare costs, increasing human resource gaps in medicine, and payment reforms that hold physicians and healthcare organizations financially accountable for having poor outcomes. Our project aims to investigate the success in achieving appropriate anticoagulation therapy for afib patients in the University of South Florida (USF) Internal Medicine resident clinics. Our goal is to achieve a 90% success rate for both linkage to follow-up and anticoagulation.Our project identified all patients in the USF Internal Medicine clinics greater than 18 years of age who were discharged from Tampa General Hospital (TGH) between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2016 and are diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. It investigated the percentage of eligible patients prescribed an anticoagulant (eligibility was determined by CHADSVASC criteria), as well as the percentage of patients who returned for follow-up at least once post-discharge.Our query identified 49 patients with atrial fibrillation who met our search c...
Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Session Title: Poster Session AM Source Type: research