Melissa Hamilton, MPH
Articles
January 11th 2016
Oral Anticoagulant Discontinuation in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation
Sumesh Kachroo, PhD Melissa Hamilton, MPH Xianchen Liu, MD, PhD Xianying Pan, MS Diana I. Brixner, PhD, RPh Nassir Marrouche, MD Joseph Biskupiak, PhD, MBA
The risk of discontinuation of oral anticoagulant therapy (both warfarin and direct oral anticoagulant therapies [DOACs]) among nonvalvular atrial fibrillation patients was high. Although the hazard ratio for discontinuation favors DOACs, it is unlikely that the small difference in discontinuation relative to warfarin is clinically meaningful.
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