Disease index

atrial fibrillation

Cardiovascular · 2010–2016

2decisions
2medicines
0carried consumer input
0individual submissions

No submission for this condition has carried consumer input, including the one made since the comments facility came into use.

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
warfarin Prophylaxis and/or treatment of venous thrombosis and its extension and pulmonary embolism; prophylaxis and/or treatment of thromboembolic complications… Nov 2016 Not recommended none received
dronedarone hydrochloride Treatment of paroxysmal or persistent atrial fibrillation or flutter in addition to standard therapy in patients with at least one additional cardiovascular… Nov 2010 Not recommended no section in document

What the PBS pays

$9M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 612,441 services.

This is spend on the medicines considered for this condition, not spend on the disease. A medicine used for several conditions is counted in full under each, so figures across conditions add to more than national PBS expenditure.

MedicineGovernment benefit
warfarin $8.8M

Appraised elsewhere

NICE, in England and Wales, has appraised 2 technologies for this condition, recommending 1 . A different committee, a different population and a different price: this is what has been looked at there, not a verdict on what happened here.

TechnologyAppraisalOutcomeDate
vernakalantVernakalant for the rapid conversion of recent onset atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm (terminated appraisal) TA675 terminated 2021-02
dronedaroneDronedarone for the treatment of non-permanent atrial fibrillation TA197 recommended 2010-08

Registered, not subsidised

Medicines on the ARTG for this condition with no PBAC record at all. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions: a medicine can be legally available in Australia and never have been put to the committee.

MedicineOn the ARTG sinceRegistrations
landiololRAPIBLYK landiolol hydrochloride 300 mg powder for injection vial 2025 1

The ARTG export holds current registrations only, so the year is the earliest entry still on the register rather than a first-registration date. The condition here comes from the registered label, which is usually broader than the population a sponsor asks to have subsidised.

Conditions are classified by a language model from the indication text of each submission, so an individual label here can be wrong. Consumer input is read from the document's own consumer comments section: 0 of 1 decisions since 2014 carried some. Silence means no comment reached the committee through that facility, not that nobody was affected. More on how this was built.