Missing Warfarin Discharge Communication and Risk of 30-Day Rehospitalization and/or Death: Retrospective Cohort Study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2394-2396

  Kennelty, Korey A ^a,b   Gilmore Bykovskyi, Andrea ^a,c   Kind, Amy J H ^a,b  

^a WILLIAM S MIDDLETON MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; DEATH; DRUG MONITORING; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LETTER; PATIENT EDUCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURE; MALE; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS; UNITED STATES; WARFARIN;

EID: 84992588810     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14423     Document Type: Letter

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