International experts have developed a standard set of outcome measures for patients with AF that includes patient-reported outcomes intended to improve the quality and delivery of care.

The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement put together a working group from 11 countries, comprising clinicians, registry experts, epidemiologists, research scientists and six patients and patient representatives.

Meetings were held by teleconference to select 18 outcome domains categorised into three major groups: long-term consequences of disease, complications of treatment and patient-reported outcomes.

“Modern medicine is moving away from relying solely on hard clinical outcomes and beginning to care about how patients feel with their disease or treatment,” said lead author Dr William Seligman of the international consortium, in London, UK.