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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is increasingly common, associated with significant morbidities, and expensive to manage. Nurse-led programs for managing heart failure are beneficial; thus, investigators in Australia sought to determine whether patients with AF would experience similar benefits.
Participants were inpatients with AF diagnoses and the expectation of discharge who had no heart failure, valvular heart disease, alcohol-induced AF, terminal disease, or plans for catheter ablation. Patients were randomized to an in-home nursing visit 7 to 14 days after discharge with multidisciplinary support as needed, or to standard care. Coprimary outcomes were time to death or subsequent unplanned hospital readmission and the proportion of days alive …