Adherence to guidelines for atrial fibrillation management of patients referred to cardiology departments: Studio Italiano multicentrico sul Trattamento della Fibrillazione Atriale (SITAF)

Europace

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1070-1077

  Bottoni, Nicola ^a   Tritto, Massimo ^b   Ricci, Renato ^c   Accogli, Michele ^d   Di Biase, Matteo ^e   Iacopino, Saverio ^d   Iori, Matteo ^a   Themistoclakis, Sakis ^f   Sitta, Nadir ^d   Spadacini, Gianmario ^b   De Ponti, Roberto ^g   Brignole, Michele ^d  

^a S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Istituto Clinico Mater Domini   (Italy)

^c SAN FILIPPO NERI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d NONE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^f Ospedale Umberto I   (Italy)

^g OSPEDALE DI CIRCOLO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Guidelines; Rate control; Rhythm control

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOVERSION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART PACING; HEART RATE; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOLOGY; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77955196531     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euq158     Document Type: Article

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