Can you help us evaluate an electronic decision support tool which has been designed to assist primary care clinicians with management of atrial fibrillation?
What is it?
An electronic decision support tool has been developed to provide an individualised checklist of treatments known to decrease the risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure and bleeding for patients with atrial fibrillation who are managed in primary care.
To determine whether and how the AF decision support tool influences treatment decisions, and identify possible ways to improve it, we will be undertaking an evaluation audit with anonymised outcomes data from national health databases.
How it was made
The tool was designed in collaboration with cardiologists and stroke physicians from the National Cardiac and Stroke Networks and is based on recommendations from international clinical practice guidelines.
It is designed to be used as part of routine care and can usually be completed easily.
Your involvement
If you take part of the evaluation, we will reimburse you $200 for each patient that you use the tool on (minimum of 5 patients). This funding also acknowledges that additional time may be needed to change medications. In addition, we will ask you to complete a short survey providing feedback on your impressions of the decision support tool within a 3-month window.
Register your interest in the B-SAFE Study
- To register your interest for your practice to take part in this study, send you name, practice, and contact details to b-safe@bestpractice.org.nz and we’ll be in touch.
What is the AF Study?
In this short video Professor Ralph Stewart (Cardiologist, Auckland City Hospital) will explain more about the B-SAFE trial
For Study Practices
In this short video we walk you through getting started with the AF Decision Support Tool
Further information on managing atrial fibrillation in primary care is available in this webinar produced by the Goodfellow Unit in association with Professor Ralph Stewart.