The American College of Cardiology (ACC) announced it plans on launching two clinical registry programs to track outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation. The registries will be part of the National Cardiovascular Data Registry, which currently includes eight cardiovascular data registries.
The ACC’s LAAO registry will include data on left atrial appendage occlusion procedures, while its AFib Ablation registry will assess information on patients undergoing atrial fibrillation ablation procedures.
The ACC said in a news release that it would use data from the AFib Ablation registry to develop evidence-based guidelines and quality metrics for atrial fibrillation treatments.
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.