Association between subjective risk perception and objective risk estimation in patients with atrial fibrillation: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Oral anticoagulation (OAC) is state-of-the-art therapy for atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common arrhythmia worldwide. However, little is known about the perception of patients with AF and how it correlates with risk scores used by their physicians. Therefore, we correlated patients' estimates of their own stroke and bleeding risk with the objectively predicted individual risk using CHA₂DS₂-VASc and HAS-BLED scores.

Design

Cross-sectional prevalence study using convenience sampling and telephone follow-up.

Settings

Eight hospital departments and one general practitioner in Austria. Patients' perception of stroke and bleeding risk was opposed to commonly used risk scoring.

Participants

Patients with newly diagnosed AF and indi

SUBMITTER: Zweiker D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5623506 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature