Anticoagulation in Atrial Fibrillation: What Decides? Patient Status, Provider Opinion, or Both?

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 335-

  Dharmarajan, T S ^a   Lebelt, Anna S ^a   Norkus, Edward P ^a  

^a OUR LADY OF MERCY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSING HOME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 33744793760     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2006.03.007     Document Type: Letter

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