Atrial Fibrillation Prevalence

This report describes counts, prevalence, and events per patient of atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, and atrial fibrillation and flutter (ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes 427.31, 427.32, and 427.3 respectively) in the Mini-Sentinel Distributed Database (MSDD). These results were generated using the Mini-Sentinel Distributed Query Tool. The query was run against the ICD-9-CM Summary Table and distributed on July 16, 2012 to 16 Data Partners; this report includes information from 14 Data Partners. Queries were run in the inpatient, outpatient, and emergency department settings.