Underuse of anticoagulation therapy for atrial fibrillation: Are we failing our patients?

Can Fam Physician. 2017 Dec;63(12):943-944.

Authors

Nicholas R Jones¹, F D Richard Hobbs², Clare J Taylor³

Affiliations

¹ Academic Clinical Fellow in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at University of Oxford in England.
² Head of Department in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at University of Oxford in England.
³ Academic Clinical Lecturer in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at University of Oxford in England. clare.taylor@phc.ox.ac.uk.

PMID: 29237637
PMCID: PMC5729145

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Anticoagulants / therapeutic use*
Atrial Fibrillation / complications
Atrial Fibrillation / drug therapy*
Female
Guideline Adherence
Humans
Risk
Stroke / diagnostic imaging*
Stroke / etiology
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

Anticoagulants

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