Publications by authors named "Morten Winther Hvidtfeldt"
Substantial differences in initiation of oral anticoagulant therapy and clinical outcome among non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients treated in inpatient and outpatient settings.
Anders Pretzmann Mikkelsen Morten Lock Hansen Jonas Bjerring Olesen Morten Winther Hvidtfeldt Deniz Karasoy
Europace
April 2016
Article Synopsis
- * The analysis included over 116,000 AF patients, showing that outpatients had the highest OAC therapy initiation rate (63.0%), while inpatients had the highest rate of TE incidents (4.30 per 100 person-years), suggesting variability in treatment quality.
- * Overall, although outpatients had a lower risk of stroke/TE and better access to OAC therapy, the results indicated that OAC therapy was not optimally