Decision making for oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation: The ATA-AF study.

CONCLUSIONS: Oral anticoagulants are more frequently used in CARD than in MED, plausibly due to greater complexity of MED patients. Stratification of thrombotic and hemorrhagic risk significantly drives the choice for VKA. However the fraction of patients in whom prescription or non-prescription is based on other individual characteristics is not negligible.
PMID: 23684591 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: European Journal of Internal Medicine - May 16, 2013 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Gussoni G, Di Pasquale G, Vescovo G, Gulizia M, Mathieu G, Scherillo M, Panuccio D, Lucci D, Nozzoli C, Fabbri G, Colombo F, Riva L, Baldo CI, Maggioni AP, Mazzone A, ATA-AF Steering Committee and Investigators Tags: Eur J Intern Med Source Type: research