Opportunistic pulse checks in primary care to improve recognition of atrial fibrillation: a retrospective analysis of electronic patient records.
CONCLUSION: Organisational alignment, standardised data entry, peer-performance dashboards, and financial incentives rapidly and generally increased opportunistic screening with pulse regularity checks. This was associated with a significant increase in detection and prevalence of AF and is of public health importance.
PMID: 29784865 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of General Practice - Category: Primary Care Authors: Cole J, Torabi P, Dostal I, Homer K, Robson J Tags: Br J Gen Pract Source Type: research
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