Assessment of an Algorithm for Prescription of Oral Anticoagulation for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation in Emergency Departments

Clare L Atzema; Jiming Fang; Jafna L Cox; Alice S Chong; Karen Tu; Peter C Austin

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.0306

Assessment of an Algorithm for Prescription of Oral Anticoagulation for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation in Emergency Departments

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Mar 2;3(3):e200306. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.0306.

Authors

Clare L Atzema^{1

2

3

4}, Jiming Fang¹, Jafna L Cox^{5

6}, Alice S Chong¹, Karen Tu^{4

7

8}, Peter C Austin^{1

2

4}

Affiliations

¹ ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine.
⁴ Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.
⁵ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine.
⁶ Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
⁷ Department of Family and Community Medicine, the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁸ University Health Network-Toronto Western Hospital Family Health Team, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

This retrospective study uses a Canadian reporting system to validate an algorithm that identifies oral anticoagulation prescriptions given to patients with atrial fibrillation treated in emergency departments.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Administration, Oral
Algorithms*
Anticoagulants / therapeutic use*
Atrial Fibrillation / drug therapy*
Emergency Service, Hospital*
Humans
Ontario
Practice Patterns, Physicians'*
Predictive Value of Tests
Retrospective Studies

Substances

Anticoagulants

Grants and funding

CIHR/Canada