ArticleBMJ open2023
Screening over 100 000 patients in 39 general practices in the Netherlands for anticoagulation underprescription in atrial fibrillation: a descriptive, cross-sectional study.
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- Educating healthcare professionals to improve AF-CARE: lessons from the ESC/EHRA STEEER-AF trial educational programme.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2025Article
- The Use of Oral Anticoagulation Is Not Independently Associated with Mortality in Frail Older Patients with Repeated Falls.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo investigate the underprescription of oral anticoagulation (OAC) in individual atrial fibrillation (AF) patients in primary care.
settingScreening of patient records in 39 participating general practitioners (GPs) across the Netherlands.
participantsWe screened 101 207 patient records identifying 2375 non-valvular AF patients.
methodsUsing electronic patient files, we were able to screen the entire GP population for AF, CHA
resultsWe found a mean CHA
conclusionsIn this large Dutch study among GPs, we observed 9.8% underprescription of OAC in AF patients. In 76% of the AF patients lacking a prescription for OAC, no documentation for deviating from the guidelines was found. Only in a minority of cases detection of OAC underprescription lead to OAC initiation.
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