Arrhythmias & electrophysiologyCross-sectional study
Patient perspectives on same-day discharge following catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: results from a patient survey as part of the monocentric FAST AFA trial
- Cross-sectional study
- patient survey
- monocentric
- part of the prospective FAST AFA trial
- 26 July 2021 to 01 July 2022; 376 screened
Authors' conclusion
We provide a detailed survey expressing patients' beliefs towards SDD following left atrial CA.
Study context
- Population
- Patients aged ≥20 years undergoing left atrial catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF)248 completed the same-day discharge (SDD) survey
- Participants
- 256 patients
- Outcome
- Patients' willingness to have same-day discharge (SDD) after catheter ablation
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Willingness for SDD
- Willing to have SDD concepts integrated into their clinical course
- 50.0%
- Imaginable benefit: increased patient comfort
- 27.5%
- Imaginable benefit: shorter waiting times
- 14.6%
- Imaginable benefit: cost-efficient treatment
- 14.0%
- Concern: uncertainties with occurring complaints
- 50.6%
- Concern: insufficient recognition of complications
- 47.8%
- Concern: insufficient treatment of complications
- 48.9%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Predictors of SDD willingness (logistic regression)
- Baseline European Heart Rhythm Association class and inpatient treatments within the preceding year predicted SDD willingness; comorbidity burden and AF knowledge did not
Original publication
Patient perspectives on same-day discharge following catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: results from a patient survey as part of the monocentric FAST AFA trial. Europace. Published 1 September 2023. doi:10.1093/europace/euad262
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it