ArticlePloS one2025
Treatment outcome and associated factors of patients with atrial fibrillation in adult emergency rooms of selected hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A one-year cross-sectional study.
Article in PloS one, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundAtrial fibrillation is the most common sustained cardiac rhythm disorder with substantial mortality and morbidity from stroke, thromboembolism, heart failure, and impaired quality of life. This study aimed to investigate the emergency presentation, treatment outcome and associated risk factors of atrial fibrillation patients admitted to three tertiary hospitals in Addis Ababa.
methodsA cross-sectional study was conducted in the adult emergency room of three tertiary hospitals in Addis Ababa. All atrial fibrillation patients admitted to these hospitals from August 15, 2021, to August 15, 2022, fulfilling inclusion criteria were included in the study. Data was collected by reviewing medical records in the form of a structured data abstraction form and analyzed by SPSS.
resultA total of 133 chart records were reviewed and the mean (±SD) age of study participants was 54.82 ± 20.49 years and ranged between 18-85 years of age. The majority of the patients, 47 (35.3%) were aged between 18-40 years. Nearly more than half of the patients 69 (51.9%) were females and two third [91 (68.4%)] of the patients were from Addis Ababa. Patients of the age group 40-59 with atrial fibrillation have an 82% lower chance of developing stroke than those in the age group >60 years and patients with underlying cardiovascular diseases have seven times higher odds of having a stroke compared to those without underlying cardiac diseases. Male patients with atrial fibrillation had 2.15 times higher odds of staying for > 24 hours at the emergency department compared to female patients. The odds of a > 24-hour stay in the ER significantly increased by 2.7 times as the patient became unstable compared to stable patients.
conclusionMales and those with unstable atrial fibrillation have a higher chance of staying more than 24 hours in the emergency room. According to the study, patients who were more than 60 years of age with underlying cardiovascular diseases had a higher likelihood of developing ischemic stroke.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.