Do Clinicians Recommend Aspirin to Patients for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease?

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 155-160

  Fiscella, Kevin ^a   Winters, Paul C ^a   Mendoza, Michael ^a   Noronha, Gary J ^a   Swanger, Carlos M ^a   Bisognano, John D ^a   Fortuna, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

aspirin; primary CVD prevention; USPSTF guidelines

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASPIRIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRIMARY PREVENTION;

EID: 84939890963     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-2985-8     Document Type: Article

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