Home-based education reduces hospitalisations in patients with atrial fibrillation
Sunday, 1 September 2019
Home-based and personalised education keeps patients with atrial fibrillation out of hospital, according to new results from the presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology.
Principal investigator Professor Prash Sanders said: "The initiative was designed to empower patients to understand and take control of their atrial fibrillation, i.e. to improve self-management. Its success in stopping hospital admissions has enormous implications for the delivery of care in atrial fibrillation. As healthcare costs grow due to hospitalisations, such programs are essential."
Professor Sanders is Director of the Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders at the University of ÐÂÀ˲ÊƱ and Royal ÐÂÀ˲ÊƱ Hospital, and a member of the at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI).
Over the last few decades, the number of people living with atrial fibrillation around the world has gr