Underuse of anticoagulation in older patients with chronic atrial fibrillation: Malpractice or accuracy?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1034-1035

  Belblli, Giuseppe ^a   Barbisoni, Piera ^a   Gusmeri, Annalisa ^a   Sabatini, Tony ^a   Rozzini, Renzo ^a   Trabucchi, Marco ^b  

^a Poliambulanza Hospital   (Italy)

^b Gerriatric Research Group Brescia   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALBUMIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALPRACTICE; STROKE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALPRACTICE; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SEX FACTORS; WARFARIN;

EID: 0032812023     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1999.tb01303.x     Document Type: Letter

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