Atrial fibrillation: time for active case finding.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Overdiagnosis in atrial fibrillation screening with wearables.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2026
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2. Performance of the imPulse device for the detection of atrial fibrillation in hospital settings.Cardiovascular digital health journal · 2022
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3. Why do people take part in atrial fibrillation screening? Qualitative interview study in English primary care.BMJ open · 2022
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4. GP incentives to design hypertension and atrial fibrillation local quality-improvement schemes: a controlled before-after study in UK primary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2019
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Corrections and comments

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  Screening of older patients for atrial fibrillation in general practice: Current evidence and its implications for future practice.2017

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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