Estimation of Total Incremental Health Care Costs in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation in the United States

By Michael H. Kim, S. Johnston, B. Chu, M. Dalal, K. Schulman. Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2011

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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Epidemiology, Family Practice

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Citations in the corpus

• Worldwide Epidemiology of Atrial Fibrillation: A Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study (2013, positive): “AF constitutes a significant public health problem, and estimates suggest that this condition accounts for 1% of the National Health Service budget in the United Kingdom(6) and $16 to 26 billion of annual US expenses.(7,8)”
• 2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation (2017, background): “In the United States, AF accounts for more than 450,000 hospitalizations yearly and has contributed to more than 99,000 deaths.(49,50) AF has been reported to increase annual health care costs by $8700 per patient, resulting in a $26 billion annual increase in U.”