Mantovani, LG;
Cozzolino, P;
Ferrara, P;
Virdone, S;
Camm, AJ;
Verheugt, FWA;
Bassand, J-P;
Turpie, AGG;
Hacke, W;
Kayani, G;
et al.
Mantovani, LG; Cozzolino, P; Ferrara, P; Virdone, S; Camm, AJ; Verheugt, FWA; Bassand, J-P; Turpie, AGG; Hacke, W; Kayani, G; Goldhaber, SZ; Goto, S; Pieper, KS; Gersh, BJ; Fox, KAA; Haas, S; van Eickels, M; Kakkar, AK; On Behalf Of The Garfield-Af Investigators
(2023)
Healthcare Resource Utilization in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Atrial Fibrillation: A Global Analysis from the GARFIELD-AF Registry.
Healthcare (Basel), 11 (5).
ISSN 2227-9032
https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11050638
SGUL Authors: Camm, Alan John
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Abstract
The management of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common sustained arrhythmia, impacts healthcare resource utilization (HCRU). This study aims to estimate global resource use in AF patients, using the GARFIELD-AF registry. A prospective cohort study was conducted to characterize HCRU in AF patients enrolled in sequential cohorts from 2012 to 2016 in 35 countries. Components of HCRU studied were hospital admissions, outpatient care visits, and diagnostic and interventional procedures occurring during follow-up. AF-related HCRU was reported as the percentage of patients demonstrating at least one event and was quantified as rate-per-patient-per-year (PPPY) over time. A total of 49,574 patients was analyzed, having an overall median follow-up of 719 days. Almost all patients (99.5%) had at least one outpatient care visit, while hospital admissions were the second most frequent medical contact, with similar proportions in North America (37.5%) and Europe (37.2%), and slightly higher in the other GARFIELD-AF countries (42.0%; namely Australia, Egypt, and South Africa). Asia and Latin America showed lower percentages of hospitalizations, outpatient care visits, and diagnostic and interventional procedures. Analyses of GARFIELD-AF highlighted the vast AF-related HCRU, underlying significant geographical differences in the type, quantity, and frequency of AF-related HCRU. These differences were likely attributable to health service availability and differing models of care.
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Additional Information: | © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | ||||||
Keywords: | atrial fibrillation, healthcare resource utilization, inpatient care, outpatient care, atrial fibrillation, healthcare resource utilization, inpatient care, outpatient care | ||||||
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: | Academic Structure > Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute (MCS) | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Healthcare (Basel) | ||||||
ISSN: | 2227-9032 | ||||||
Language: | eng | ||||||
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PubMed ID: | 36900643 | ||||||
Web of Science ID: | WOS:000947230400001 | ||||||
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URI: | https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/115333 | ||||||
Publisher's version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11050638 |
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