Mobile Electrocardiogram Monitoring and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

Abstract

The Ambulatory and Hospital Care Statistics Branch is pleased to release the most current nationally representative data on ambulatory care visits to physician offices in the United States. Statistics are presented on physician practices as well as patient and visit characteristics using data collected in the 2015 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). NAMCS is an annual nationally representative sample survey of visits to nonfederal office-based patient care physicians, excluding anesthesiologists, radiologists, and pathologists. Visit estimates for the following 16 states that were targeted for separate estimation are included in the summary tables:

Sociodemographic, Clinical and Geriatric Characteristics Associated with Poor Atrial Fibrillation-Related Quality of Life in Older Adults with Atrial Fibrillation: A cross-sectional study

“…In the present study, the average AFEQT score at baseline was 80.0 (SD: 18.0), while average scores in previous studies have ranged from 73 to 87 [13,20,[30][31][32]. Differences in our results compared to previous research may be due to differences in cohort symptom severity, smaller sample sizes [13,30,32], AF symptom treatment differences [31] and the methods used to recruit patients into these research studies (i.e. registries, hospital patients, clinic settings) [20,32].…”

A virtual platform to deliver ambulatory care for patients with atrial fibrillation

“…This suggests that the possibility of being able to have home-based rhythm monitoring provided some measure of safety or comfort; there has only been 1 prospective study on the effect of AHM on quality of life, and there was a trend in improvement of AF-specific quality-of-life measures. 17 …”

“…This suggests that the possibility of being able to have home-based rhythm monitoring provided some measure of safety or comfort; there has only been one prospective study on the effect of AHM on quality of life; there was a trend in improvement of AF-specific quality of life measures. 17 There are very little published data on patient-centered virtual care for cardiac patients. Surveys of cardiac patients have shown an interest in having more internet-based tools available.…”

2021 ISHNE/HRS/EHRA/APHRS Expert Collaborative Statement on mHealth in Arrhythmia Management: Digital Medical Tools for Heart Rhythm Professionals: From the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology/Heart Rhythm Society/European Heart Rhythm Association/Asia-Pacific Heart Rhythm Society

“…The iHEART study (iPhone Helping Evaluate Atrial Fibrillation Rhythm Through Technology) is a single-center, prospective, randomized controlled trial, and the Heartline study seeks to accomplish this goal (Caceres 2020, Hickey 2016; https://www.heartline.com ). 51 , 72 , 73 …”