Atrial Fibrillation Self-Screening, Management and Guideline Recommended Therapy (AF Self SMART)
- Conditions
- atrial fibrillationCardiovascular - Other cardiovascular diseasesPublic Health - Health service research
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12620000233921
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Sydney
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1500
Key inclusion criteria: Five to eight practices in urban Sydney will be recruited to the study. The practices will be required to:
• Meet IT software requirements, including the installation of Top Bar and the clinical audit software PenCAT;
• WiFi; and
• Use either Best Practice or Medical Director as the practice electronic patient record management system.
Practices will provide written informed consent to participate in the study and must be willing to comply with the study protocol.
Patient eligibility
Eligible patients aged 65 years or older presenting to the general practice for any health practitioner appointment, including annual flu vaccination, shingles vaccination, chronic care assessment, will be eligible for AF self screening if they meet the following inclusion criteria:
• Aged 65 years or older, and
• No recorded diagnosis of AF.
Patients with severe medical conditions (i.e. terminal illness) or who are physically or intellectually unable to undertake the screening procedure will be excluded from the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Feasibility will be determined by the proportion of eligible patients aged 65 years and older without any prior diagnosis of AF that complete opportunistic self-screening for atrial fibrillation per practice, as identified by PEN CAT data extraction of practice electronic medical records. [For the 3 months after the commencement of the self-screening intervention.]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method