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Online Education Can Enhance Clinical Guideline Use By Over 50% 

Last updated: 2025/06/15 at 6:04 AM
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An international study has shown that targeted online education on atrial fibrillation (AF) for health professionals can improve guideline-adherent care. 

This cluster-randomised controlled trial, published in Nature Medicine1 this week, was designed to test if structured online AF education for health professionals could improve the care that individual patients receive. The STEEER-AF trial found that the educational intervention had no significant impact on recommendations for stroke prevention, since use of blood thinning therapy was already near-optimal. However, only 1 in 5 patients had their heart rhythm care aligned to clinical practice guidelines from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). The education for health professionals increased patient-level adherence to optimal care recommendations for rhythm control by 51% compared to centres with no additional education. 

Clinical practice guidelines are used across the world to standardise care and ensure that every patient gets the best possible outcomes, based on the most up-to-date evidence. Recently, the ESC updated its guidelines on AF for use across its 58 member countries and beyond. However, implementation of these and other ESC guidelines is challenging, with education of both healthcare professionals and patients essential to ensure better uptake and adherence.  

“When we designed the new ESC guidelines for AF, we were conscious to think about how these would become embedded in routine practice to help every patient with AF. This trial was run in parallel with the writing of the guidelines to help us achieve better implementation,” explains Professor Dipak Kotecha, Chief Investigator for the STEEER-AF trial and Co-Chair of the 2024 ESC Guidelines on AF.  

“The STEEER-AF trial gave some mixed results… on the one hand, we saw that clinical staff were already providing really good care to prevent stroke and blood clots in their patients with AF. Conversely, the approach to heart rhythm control was much worse than expected. Specifically with heart rhythm control, we saw that education for staff (an average of only nine hours online) helped to improve the care that individual patients received. Put together with education for patients, the results suggest a way forward to enhance ‘AF-CARE’, an approach designed to improve patient wellbeing and reduce the burden of AF on health and social care,” said Professor Dipak Kotecha from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham.   

Atrial fibrillation is a major public health issue – predicted to double in prevalence over the next few decades, and associated with poor patient quality of life, premature death and a high rate of complications, including stroke, blood clots and vascular dementia. Due to its complex association with other cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular conditions, AF requires an individualised approach, bringing together the needs and wants of each patient and their healthcare team. This integration of care was significantly improved in the centres receiving the educational intervention, as reported by the patients themselves. 

STEEER-AF was the first clinical trial sponsored by the ESC.  The trial was designed and run in collaboration with the European Heart Rhythm Association and the ESC Council on Stroke.  It included 70 healthcare centres from France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain and the UK, with a total of 1,732 patients with AF included across these centres.  

STEEER-AF was funded by the European Society of Cardiology and European Heart Rhythm Association, and supported by educational grants from Boehringer Ingelheim, BMS/Pfizer Alliance, Bayer, Daiichi Sankyo and Boston Scientific. Additional funding was provided by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (Oxford, UK) and the Birmingham British Heart Foundation Accelerator (Birmingham, UK).  Trial staff at the coordinating academic centre were supported by the NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre (Birmingham, UK).

The European Society of Cardiology brings together health care professionals from more than 150 countries, working to advance cardiovascular medicine and help people lead longer, healthier lives.


The University of Birmingham is ranked amongst the world’s top 100 institutions. Its work brings people from across the world to Birmingham, including researchers, teachers and more than 8,000 international students from over 150 countries. 


The mission of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research. NIHR is funded by the UK Department of Health and Social Care. The NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre translates new scientific discoveries into treatments and diagnostics to improve people’s health in the UK and across the globe. We focus on inflammation, a common feature of many diseases, and work to improve its diagnosis, prevention and treatment. 

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