94
Participants
Start Date
May 15, 2018
Primary Completion Date
December 31, 2019
Study Completion Date
May 31, 2020
Virtual Platform
The platform will direct patients to review the Canadian Cardiovascular Guidelines and the Heart \& Stroke website for commonly asked questions relating to atrial fibrillation, as well as recommendations regarding nutrition and activity.
AliveCor Heart Monitor
A substudy of patients enrolled into the CSAF Tool study who own a compatible smart phone will be randomized to the Alive Cor Heart Monitor plus the virtual platform versus the virtual platform alone. The purpose of this substudy is to assess the feasibility and effect of incorporating Alive COR into a virtual online patient-education platform on patients' quality of life and AF-related emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
QE II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax
Cardiac Arrhythmia Network of Canada
OTHER
Nova Scotia Health Authority
OTHER