Population
8,452 patients aged 60 years and older from the Intego primary care registry in Belgium.
Design
Case-control
Follow-up
mean 2.7 ± 2.5 years
Authors
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Anticoagulation underuse in multimorbid AF warrants clinician review; leaves open whether targeted strategies improve guideline adherence.
Incident atrial fibrillation in older primary care patients is significantly associated with multimorbidity, and there is a substantial gap between guidelines and clinical practice regarding anticoagulant prescription.
Vanbeselaere et al. (2016) studied this question.
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