Empowering podiatrists to perform pulse checks for opportunistic atrial fibrillation detection during annual diabetes foot checks

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether training podiatrists to provide opportunistic screening for atrial fibrillation (AF) during the local diabetes foot check was feasible and whether it detects previously unknown AF. METHOD: During the initiative, 45 podiatrists from across North Durham, Darlington and...

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Autores principales: Hicks, Linda, Newton, Julia, Nayar, Rahul, Mackay, Kate
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
Materias:
Health Care Delivery, Economics and Global Health Care
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6443127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30997115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2018-000795

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6443127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30997115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2018-000795

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