1. Nat. Rev. Cardiol. doi:10.1038/nrcardio.2017.153
Figure 1 The Atrial fibrillation Better Care (ABC) pathway for integrated care management
Figure 1 | The Atrial fibrillation Better Care (ABC) pathway for integrated care management. In the Birmingham 3-step for stroke prevention1, step 1 is to identify low-risk patients (CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 in men or 1 in women, with event rates of <1% per year) who do not require antithrombotic therapy. Step 2 is to offer stroke prevention to those with one or more risk factors for stroke. The SAMe-TT2R2 score can help to decide between a vitamin K antagonist (VKA) with good time in therapeutic range (TTR) or a non-VKA oral anticoagulant (NOAC; step 3). OAC, oral anticoagulation.
Lip, G. Y. H. (2017) The ABC pathway: an integrated approach to improve AF management
Nat. Rev. Cardiol. doi: /nrcardio