Impact of adverse events on prescribing warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation: matched pair analysis.

Niteesh K Choudhry; Geoffrey Anderson; Andreas Laupacis; Dennis Ross-Degnan; Sharon-Lise T Normand; Stephen B Soumerai

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Impact of adverse events on prescribing warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation: matched pair analysis.

January 31, 2006

Choudhry NK, Anderson G, Laupacis A, et al. BMJ. 2006;332(7534):141-5.

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This population-based study examined how adverse bleeding events associated with warfarin affected physicians' prescribing the drug to other patients.

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