Patients' perspectives on taking warfarin: qualitative study in family practice

BACKGROUND: Despite the well-documented benefits of using warfarin to prevent stroke, physicians remain reluctant to initiate therapy, and especially so with the elderly owing to the higher risk of hemorrhage. Prior research suggests that patients are more accepting of the risk of bleeding than are...

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Autores principales: Dantas, Guilherme Coelho, Thompson, Barbara V, Manson, Judith A, Tracy, C Shawn, Upshur, Ross EG
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC509246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15268764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-5-15

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC509246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15268764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-5-15

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