Table 3: Follow-up care among patients (n = 14 907) discharged from an emergency department in Ontario with a new diagnosis of atrial fibrillation.
| Time to follow-up care, d | Total no. of patients seen (%) | No. of patients with follow-up care from family physician only (%) | No. of patients with follow-up care from cardiologist or internist only (%) | No. of patients with follow-up care from cardiologist or internist, with or without family physician (%) | No. of patients with follow-up care from both family physician and cardiologist or internist (%) | No. of patients with follow-up care from any of family physician, cardiologist or internist (%) | No. of patients who died after discharge |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Within 3 d | Within 7 d | Within 30 d | |||||||||||||
| 1–3 |
4 085 |
(27.4) |
3 094 |
(20.8) |
787 |
(5.3) |
991 |
(6.7) |
204 |
(1.4) |
4 085 |
(27.4) |
14 |
21 |
61 |
| 1–7 |
7 473 |
(50.1) |
5 311 |
(35.6) |
1 414 |
(9.5) |
2 162 |
(14.5) |
748 |
(5.0) |
7 473 |
(50.1) |
14 |
34 |
97 |
| 1–30 |
12 229 |
(82.0) |
6 473 |
(43.4) |
1 765 |
(11.8) |
5 756 |
(38.6) |
3 991 |
(26.8) |
12 229 |
(82.0) |
14 |
34 |
120 |
| > 30 | 2 678 | (18.0) | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | 14 | 24 | |||||