Low Level of Knowledge of Atrial Fibrillation and Anticoagulant Treatment among Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Scheduled for Cardiac Surgery

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Purpose and Significance of Study: The manuscript highlights the low level of knowledge of atrial fibrillation and anticoagulant treatment among patients with atrial fibrillation who are candidates for cardiac surgery, thus underlining the need for greater efforts to adequately educate this vulnerable subset of patients. 

 

Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of high interest for the Journal of Integrative Cardiology Open Access.  

 

o   A few corrections (already incorporated in the galley proof) in the manuscript are required. Some common errors in the manuscript are – 

·       Omission of articles in a few places, e.g., omission of “an” before “increasing” in the 3^rd sentence of the 1^st paragraph in the Introduction section, before “hospital” in the 2^nd sentence of Patients in the Materials and Methods section, and so on.  

·       Omission of “,” in many places, e.g., after “past” and “stroke” in the 2^nd sentence of Results in the Abstract section, after “hospital” in the 4^th sentence of Patients in the Materials and Methods section, and so on. 

·       Omission of “.” after “vs”, e.g., in the last sentence of Patient characteristics in the Results section, in the 1^st sentence of General Results in the Results section, and so on. 

·       Using “a” before “scheduled heart surgery” in many places, e.g., in the last sentence of Introduction, in the 1^st sentence of Patients in the Materials and Methods section, and so on. 

 

o   The other errors are listed below – 

 

In the Introduction section – 

  In the 1^st paragraph – 

·       In the 1^st sentence, “a” before “high” must be removed. 

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “an” must be inserted before “increasing”. 

  In the last paragraph – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “being” must be replaced with “and to be”. 

 

In the Materials and Methods section – 

  Under Questionnaire – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “patients” must be followed by “’” and “the” before “arrhythmia” must be removed. 

  Under Clinical data – 

·       In the 5^th sentence, “,” after “OACs” must be removed. 

  Under Statistics – 

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “number” must be replaced by “numbers”. 

 

In the Results section – 

  Under Patient characteristics – 

  In the 2^nd paragraph – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “,” after “acenocoumarol” must be replaced with “.”. 

  Under General Results – 

·       In the 4^th sentence, “painkillers use” must be replaced with “use of painkillers”. 

  Under Valvular surgery group versus the remaining surgical patients – 

  In the 2^nd paragraph – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “respectively” must be moved to before “p=0.002”. 

·       In the last sentence, “were” must be replaced with “was”. 

  In the 3^rd paragraph – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “one third” must be hyphenated. 

 

In the Discussion section – 

  In the 1^st paragraph – 

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “,” after “AF” must be removed, and “prothesis” must be replaced with “prosthesis”. 

  In the 2^nd paragraph – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “patient” must be replaced with “patients’”. 

·       In the 6^th sentence, “level” must be in plural form. 

·       In the 8^th sentence, “improved” must be replaced with “improving”. 

  In the 3^rd paragraph – 

·       In the last sentence, “2” must be replaced with “two”. 

  In the 5^th paragraph – 

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “decision making” must be hyphenated. 

  In the last paragraph – 

·       In the 5^th sentence, “,” after “group” must be replaced with “;”. 

·       In the 6^th sentence, “amount” must be replaced with “number”, and “,” after “results” must be replaced with “;”. 

In the Conclusion section – 

·       In the last sentence, “the” before “elective” must be removed. 

 

Author Info

Aleksandra Lipska Anetta Undas Hein Heidbuchel Jacek Legutko Justyna Śliwińska Krzysztof Piotr Malinowski Lien Desteghe Mateusz Sitkowski Małgorzata Konieczyńska Tomasz Rajs

Corresponding Author

Anetta Undas
Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland

Article Info

Article Type

Research Article

Publication history

Received: Mon 27, Jan 2020
Accepted: Sat 15, Feb 2020
Published: Sat 29, Feb 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Anetta Undas . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JICOA.2020.01.07