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房颤的患病率约占英国人口的1.6%。心房颤动是最严重的卒中形式之一的主要原因之一。找到患有心房颤动的人，给他们服用被称为NOAC(新口服抗凝剂)的正确药物，中风的数量就会显著减少。虽然已经确定了一部分房颤患者，但英国公共卫生组织目前的估计显示，患有房颤的不明病例数量约为50万人。现有的技术允许对心脏功能进行筛查，以非常简单和容易地确定心律失常和心房颤动，筛查大约需要30秒。主要的问题是，使用这种设备来寻找房颤患者需要经过临床培训的人来操作设备。在全科医生手术中，没有时间、动机或工作人员进行这样的筛查。KASC-P项目建议使用一种新的Kiosk技术，允许患者自己进行筛查，并使结果能够直接发送到全科医生，使他们能够以支持而不是增加工作量的方式接收确诊的房颤病例。

The prevelance of the disease Atrial Fibrillation runs at about 1.6% of the UK population. Atrial Fibrillation is one of the key causes of one of the most serious forms of Stroke. Find the people with Atrial Fibrillation and place them on the right medication known as a NOAC (New Oral AntiCoagulant) and the amount of Stroke is significantly reduced. Whilst a proportion of sufferers of AF have been identified already current estimates from Public Health England place the number of unidentified cases of people suffering from Atrial Fibrillation around the 500,000 mark. Technology exists that allows the screening of cardiac performance to determine cardiac arrhythmia and Atrial Fibrillation very simply and easily with a screening taking around 30 seconds to perform. The main problem is that the usage of this equipment to find people with Atrial Fibrillation requires a clinically trained person to operate the equipment. In GP surgeries there is not the time, the motivation, or the staff available to perform such screening sessions. The KASC-P project proposes using a new kiosk technology to allow patients to screen themselves and to enable the results to be sent straight to the GP allowing them to receive a confirmed case of AF in a manner that supports their workload rather than increase it.