Cost of an emerging epidemic: an economic analysis of atrial fibrillation in the UK

To evaluate the cost of atrial fibrillation (AF) to health and social services in the UK in 1995 and, based on epidemiological trends, to project this estimate to 2000. DESIGN, SETTING, AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Contemporary estimates of health care activity related to AF were applied to the whole population of the UK on an age and sex specific basis for the year 1995. The activities considered (and costs calculated) were hospital admissions,...