Treatment of venous thromboembolism in ambulatory cancer patients in Germany: A prospective non-interventional study

Oncology Research and Treatment

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 174-180

  Matzdorff, Axel ^a   Schilling, Holger ^b   Ledig, Bettina ^b  

^a Caritasklinikum Saarbruecken ^*  (Germany)

^b LEO Pharma GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer associated venous thromboembolism; Health services research

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIVITAMIN K; FONDAPARINUX; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG FATALITY; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HEPARINIZATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; LEG FRACTURE; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTPATIENT CARE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SIDE EFFECT; URETHRAL BLEEDING; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASMS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GERMANY; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEPARIN; HEPARIN, LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84928499067     PISSN: 22965270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000380871     Document Type: Article

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