Comparing the imperfect with the imperfect: the imprecise science of assessing the risk and benefits of anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation

Affiliations

¹ From the Division of Cardiology, Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond.
² From the Division of Cardiology, Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond. kellenbogen@mcvh-vcu.edu.

Editorial

Alex Y Tan et al. Circulation. 2014.

. 2014 May 20;129(20):1997-9.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.009979. Epub 2014 Mar 29.

¹ From the Division of Cardiology, Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond.
² From the Division of Cardiology, Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond. kellenbogen@mcvh-vcu.edu.

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Keywords: Editorials; arrhythmias, cardiac; atrial fibrillation.

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Lack of concordance between empirical scores and physician assessments of stroke and bleeding risk in atrial fibrillation: results from the Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF) registry.
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