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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 4, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(22):2356-2357; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi489
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2005. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

The Euro Heart Survey on atrial fibrillation: a picture and a thousand words

D. George Wyse*

Department of Cardiac Sciences, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary and Calgary Health Region, Room G009, Health Sciences Center, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1

* Corresponding author. Tel: +1 403 220 2052; fax: +1 403 284 5594. E-mail address: dgwyse@ucalgary.ca

This editorial refers to ‘Atrial fibrillation management: a prospective survey in ESC member countries. The Euro Heart Survey on atrial fibrillation’{dagger} by R. Nieuwlaat et al., on page 2422

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The Euro Heart Survey on atrial fibrillation (AF) is a registry of patients in Europe who were seen by a cardiologist for AF over a 12-month period in 2003 and 2004. In the data presented,1 we see a snapshot of several aspects of AF at this particular moment in time in Europe. Registries are an important tool for description of any number of aspects of a particular medical condition, including its management. Their strength lies in the fact that data are provided on a large number of patients and the cross-sectional aspects of the data are advantageous; in this case, the number of countries is also large. Limitations include the degree of adherence to definitions, rigour, completeness and uniformity of data collection, and potential selectivity in patient enrolment (consecutiveness) among others. Nevertheless, they are useful for description of practice patterns among a group of physicians, for development . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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