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Atrial fibrillation: diagnosis and management

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  • Reference number: NG196
  • Published:  27 April 2021
  • Last updated:  30 June 2021
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Evidence reviews – April 2021

The following documents contain the evidence that was used to develop the 2021 recommendations:

  • Effectiveness of tests for detection
  • Accuracy of tests for detection
  • Tools to predict stroke in people with atrial fibrillation
  • Risk stratification tools for predicting bleeding in people with atrial fibrillation
  • Anticoagulant therapy for stroke prevention in people with atrial fibrillation
  • Anticoagulant therapy: health economics analysis
  • Discontinuing anticoagulation in people whose atrial fibrillation has resolved
  • Non-ablative rate control therapies
  • Ablation
  • Ablation: network meta-analysis
  • Ablation: health economics analysis
  • Antiarrhythmic drugs after ablation
  • Treatment strategies for atrial fibrillation after cardiothoracic surgery
  • Statins for preventing atrial fibrillation after cardiothoracic surgery

This page was last updated: 27 April 2021

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