Table 3: Follow-up care among patients (n = 14 907) discharged from an emergency department in Ontario with a new diagnosis of atrial fibrillation | Time to follow-up care, d | Total no. of patients seen (%) | No. of patients with follow-up care from family physician only (%) | No. of patients with follow-up care from cardiologist or internist only (%) | No. of patients with follow-up care from cardiologist or internist, with or without family physician (%) | No. of patients with follow-up care from both family physician and cardiologist or internist (%) | No. of patients with follow-up care from any of family physician, cardiologist or internist (%) | No. of patients who died after discharge |
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| Within 3 d | Within 7 d | Within 30 d |
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| 1–3 | 4 085 | (27.4) | 3 094 | (20.8) | 787 | (5.3) | 991 | (6.7) | 204 | (1.4) | 4 085 | (27.4) | 14 | 21 | 61 |
| 1–7 | 7 473 | (50.1) | 5 311 | (35.6) | 1 414 | (9.5) | 2 162 | (14.5) | 748 | (5.0) | 7 473 | (50.1) | 14 | 34 | 97 |
| 1–30 | 12 229 | (82.0) | 6 473 | (43.4) | 1 765 | (11.8) | 5 756 | (38.6) | 3 991 | (26.8) | 12 229 | (82.0) | 14 | 34 | 120 |
| > 30 | 2 678 | (18.0) | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | 14 | 24 |