Is it high time to leave the chronic disease care of rural older people to village doctors in China: Insights from a population-based atrial fibrillation screening study

No study has systematically investigated the quality of long-term care delivered to the rural older people with chronic diseases, such as atrial fibrillation (AF) in China. This study aims to provide contemporary data on the prevalence and awareness of AF among the older population in rural China and to evaluate healthcare knowledge and delivery by village doctors.