Open Access<p>Clinical Characteristics And Health Care Resources In Patients Treated With Oral Anticoagulants: Evidences From Italian Administrative Databases</p>
Author(s) -
Luca Degli Esposti,
Margherita Andretta,
G. Di Pasquale,
Marco Gambera,
Stefania Saragoni,
Valentina Perrone,
Stefano Buda
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
vascular health and risk management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.892
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1178-2048
pISSN - 1176-6344
DOI - 10.2147/vhrm.s216749
Subject(s) - medicine , vitamin k antagonist , medical prescription , atrial fibrillation , retrospective cohort study , incidence (geometry) , vitamin k , cohort , diagnosis code , emergency medicine , health care , database , warfarin , population , physics , environmental health , computer science , optics , economics , pharmacology , economic growth
1) To evaluate anticoagulation treatment patterns and health care resource use in adult patients with a discharge diagnosis of non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) in an Italian real-world setting and 2) to describe the characteristics of NVAF patients in relation to treatment.