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- Title
Values and preferences for oral antithrombotic therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation: physician and patient perspectives.
- Authors
Alonso-Coello, Pablo; Montori, Victor M.; Díaz, M. Gloria; Devereaux, Philip J.; Mas, Gemma; Diez, Ana I.; Solà, Ivan; Roura, Mercè; Souto, Juan C.; Oliver, Sven; Ruiz, Rafael; Coll-Vinent, Blanca; Gich, Ignasi; Schünemann, Holger J.; Guyatt, Gordon
- Abstract
The article discusses a study regarding the perspectives of physicians and patients on the values and preferences for anticuagulation and antithtombic therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Topics include interviewing outpatients and physicians on making decisions related to anticoagulation, the risk of bleeding after taking warfarin and aspirin, and the variability in patients and physicians' values and preferences.
- Subjects
ATRIAL fibrillation treatment; STROKE diagnosis; FIBRINOLYTIC agents; ASPIRIN; ATRIAL fibrillation; HEMORRHAGE; INTERVIEWING; MEDICAL care; ORAL drug administration; PATIENT satisfaction; PATIENTS; PHYSICIANS; RESEARCH funding; TEMPERATURE; WARFARIN
- Publication
Health Expectations, 2015, Vol 18, Issue 6, p2318
- ISSN
1369-6513
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/hex.12201