Anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation: Underuse?

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Pechlaner, Christoph ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

ANTICOAGULATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 79959340586     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2010.07.030     Document Type: Letter

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