Mon, 07/09/2012 – 18:02 — traine

Our Research Super Stars are at it again! Dr Scheuermeyer and the team (including Drs Grafstein, Stenstrom, Pourvali, and Christensen) have just published “Thirty-Day and 1-Year Outcomes of Emergency Department Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and No Acute Underlying Medical Cause” in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
927 of our patients were studied, with a combined death (5 pts) and stroke (2 pts) rate of 0.8% (CI 0.3%-1.6%) at 30 days.
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The article can be found on:

PubMed PMID:22738681 (use this if you are at work or use UBC myVPN from home)

The Annals Website (use this if you have direct access to the journal online)