[PDF] Top 20 What patients want and need to know about atrial fibrillation

... for patients diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AF), a common chronic condition that affects up to 3 million people in the ...educating patients and counseling about self-management of ... See full document

... by patients as the most relevant safety issues they want to ...the need for side- effect and risk information was the first mention of what patients wanted to know about ... See full document

... Atrial fibrillation occurs frequently in medical intensive care unit ...Whether atrial fibrillation contributes to morbidity and/or mortality and whether atrial fibrillation is ... See full document

... Nineteen patients had previously known AF (seven with paroxysmal AF) and 21 were newly diagnosed ...of patients and thyroid function checked in ...of patients previously not on warfarin, and aspirin ... See full document

... the need for a transfusion of two or more units of blood, the need for corrective surgery, or any combination of these ...attack, atrial thrombosis, pulmonary thromboembolism (PT), deep vein ... See full document

... Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a frequent arrhythmia associated with an adverse prognostic value in patients with ...in patients presenting with ACS as well as with ...secutive ... See full document

... This con- cept of health education requires, on the part of the physician, a readiness to respond to concerns and needs as perceived by the patient, an awareness of the patient’s cogniti[r] ... See full document

... some patients who had had exposure to anticoagulants in the 12 months before their ...Included patients admitted to hospital for bleeding events might also have stopped anticoagulant therapy and then ... See full document

... ulum items determined by orthopaedic surgeons whose primary affiliation is non-academic was conducted. The reasons for this are two fold. First, the attrition rate into a full-time academic practice to any of the 16 ... See full document

... Sustainable Development Strategy recognises that its most deprived communities are most vulnerable to the pressures of poor environments, and most in need of access to the benefits of good quality environments. 13 ... See full document

... Limitations of this study were as follows: 1) it is a single medical center survey, 2) the sample size was relatively small, and 3) the quality of OAT use was not studied. Patients on OAT might not get therapeutic ... See full document

... An immediate dilemma in talking about a ‘public health system’ is agreeing a definition of public health and a related set of boundaries (Hunter et al., 2010). Public health is notoriously difficult to define with ... See full document

... stereotypes about these tragic events, not all violence in the workplace is the result of angry or disgruntled ...opinions about the potential ...direction about possible strategies to address anger ... See full document

... Most instructors determine the exam dates when planning the syllabus for the semester. Those dates should change only due to unusual circumstances, such as class cancellations or illness. Most students, especially adult ... See full document

... A related issue is becoming a successful professional within one’s firm. To be a professional one needs to approach his/her career with a mind toward life-long learning. All service professionals should develop expertise ... See full document

... of patients with chronic atrial fibrillation about 5 fold, up to a fifty% of patients with mitral valve stenosis and atrial fibrillation develop embolic events which in ... See full document

... This person helps make services better for people with a learning disability from an ethnic minority background 3 set up a group of people to help the Partnership Board think about the n[r] ... See full document

... of what is a profession, what it means to be a professional, and why professionalism in exercise physiology is integral to developing our core curriculum as a healthcare profession cannot be ... See full document

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... The most expressive discourse came with what the professions wanted the other profession to know about their duties and functions. Nurses repeatedly brought up the desire for greater respect from the ... See full document