Identification of patients with atrial fibrillation in general practice

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EDITOR—Roderick and Cox's work shows that it is feasible to identify patients with atrial fibrillation in clinical practice, which confirms the suggestions from our data. They say, however, that only a small proportion of those detected would be eligible for and would accept warfarin treatment. Their eligibility estimates are considerably lower than our own,1 and we suspect that this difference partly reflects the effect of using different eligibility criteria, which we have noted previously.2 Patients' understanding of the risks and benefits …