Clinical Guidelines & Documents
Rationale, considerations, and goals for atrial fibrillation centers of excellence: A Heart Rhythm Society perspective
Atrial fibrillation (AF) remains an important global problem.1–3 AF continues to lead to poor health outcomes, including reduced quality of life (QoL) and increased risks of heart failure, cognitive impairment, stroke, and death.4,5 Moreover, it has a significant financial impact on health care systems and their associated economies.6–8 In order to improve care for patients with AF, there is an increasing recognition that current care must evolve. Health care organizations should move from a system of siloed outpatient and inpatient clinicians and health care facilities to a system of integrated, coordinated, and patient-centered AF centers.European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS) expert consensus on arrhythmias and cognitive function: what is the best practice?
Reviewers: William-Fernando Bautista-Vargas (Colombia), Chern-En Chiang (Taiwan), Alejandro Cuesta (Uruguay), Gheorghe-Andrei Dan (Romania), David S. Frankel (USA), Yutao Guo (People's Republic of China), Robert Hatala (Slovakia), Young Soo Lee (Republic of Korea), Yuji Murakawa (Japan), Cara N. Pellegrini (USA), Claudio Pinho (Brazil), David J. Milan (USA), Daniel P. Morin (USA), Elenir Nadalin (Brazil), George Ntaios (Greece), Mukund A. Prabhu (India, Australia), Marco Proietti (UK, Italy), Lena Rivard (Canada), Mariana Valentino (Argentina), and Alena Shantsila (Reviewer Coordinator) (UK)
