Missed opportunities for appropriate anticoagulation among emergency department patients with uncomplicated atrial fibrillation or flutter

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Scheuermeyer, Frank X ^a   Innes, Grant ^b   Pourvali, Reza ^a   Dewitt, Chris ^a   Grafstein, Eric ^a   Heslop, Claire ^a   Macphee, Jan ^a   Ward, John ^a   Heilbron, Brett ^a   McGrath, Lorraine ^a   Christenson, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMPLANTED HEART PACEMAKER; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

EID: 84888132203     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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