In-hospital case management to increase anticoagulation therapy for stroke patients with atrial fibrillation: A hospital-based registry

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 263-268

  Sun, Mu Chien ^a   Hsiao, Pi Ju ^a  

^a CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Atrial fibrillation; Case management; Ischemic stroke

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE MANAGEMENT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REGISTER; STROKE PATIENT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT REFUSAL; URINARY TRACT HEMORRHAGE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; STROKE; WARFARIN;

EID: 84877601670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 09296646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfma.2012.02.016     Document Type: Article

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