Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants: an appeal for consensus on terminology

Chest. 2014 May;145(5):1177-1178. doi: 10.1378/chest.13-2951.

Authors

Gregory Y H Lip¹, A John Camm², Elaine M Hylek³, Jonathan L Halperin⁴, Jeffrey I Weitz⁵

Affiliations

¹ University of Birmingham Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, City Hospital, Birmingham, England. Electronic address: g.y.h.lip@bham.ac.uk.
² Department of Cardiology, St. George's University of London, London, England.
³ Department of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA.
⁴ Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

PMID: 24798856
DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-2951

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Acenocoumarol / administration & dosage
Administration, Oral
Anticoagulants / administration & dosage*
Consensus*
Humans
Terminology as Topic*
Thrombosis / prevention & control*
Vitamin K / antagonists & inhibitors*

Substances

Anticoagulants
Vitamin K
Acenocoumarol