Opportunistic Detection of Atrial Fibrillation in the Emergency Department: Today's Health Care Systems Are Not Prepared to Reap the Benefits

Affiliations

¹ Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ICES (formerly known as the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences), Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: clare.atzema@ices.on.ca.
² Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Editorial

Clare L Atzema et al. Ann Emerg Med. 2025.

. 2025 Sep 10:S0196-0644(25)01137-0.

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2025.08.002. Online ahead of print.

¹ Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ICES (formerly known as the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences), Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: clare.atzema@ices.on.ca.
² Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Keywords: Arrhythmia; Atrial fibrillation; Atrial flutter.

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