JAMDA
Volume 7, Issue 5 , Page 335 , June 2006

Anticoagulation in Atrial Fibrillation: What Decides? Patient Status, Provider Opinion, or Both?

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  2. Messinger-Rapport BA . The nursing home physician’s point of view on warfarin use . J Am Med Dir Assoc . 2006;7:133–134
  3. Cheng H . Why health care providers don’t prescribe warfarin to a frail nursing home resident with atrial fibrillation . J Am Med Dir Assoc . 2006; accompanying letter
  4. Warhaftig ML . Anticoagulation in a high risk nursing home resident . Annals of Long Term Care . 2005;23:36–42
  5. Monette J , Gurwitz JH , Rochson PA , Avorn J . Physician attitudes concerning warfarin for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation (Results of a survey of long-term care practitioners) . J Am Geriatr Soc . 1997;45:1060–1065

PII: S1525-8610(06)00177-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2006.03.007

JAMDA
Volume 7, Issue 5 , Page 335 , June 2006

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