Publications by authors named "Morag Shaw"
Objectives: This work set out to comprehensively characterize patients admitted to hospital with both atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) and to compare this cohort of patients to the global hospital population of patients with only one of these diagnoses.
Methods And Results: This was a retrospective analysis of all in-patients with HF and AF admitted to a large urban hospital over a 3-month period. Patients with AF were identified by both discharge codes and electrocardiograms.
Objective: To determine whether or not radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for persistent atrial fibrillation in patients with advanced heart failure leads to improvements in cardiac function.
Setting: Patients were recruited from heart failure outpatient clinics in Scotland.
Design And Intervention: Patients with advanced heart failure and severe left ventricular dysfunction were randomised to RFA (rhythm control) or continued medical treatment (rate control).
Background: Discharge codes are frequently used to describe hospital activity related to heart failure (HF).
Objectives: To determine whether discharge codes for HF underestimated or overestimated hospital activity related to HF.
Design: Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), who commonly have HF, were identified and their case notes reviewed to identify cases of HF missed by discharge codes.