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Potentially inappropriate prescribing of DOACs to people with mechanical heart valves
We conducted a retrospective cohort study of DOAC prescribing in people with a record of a mechanical heart valve between September 2019 and May 2021, and describe the characteristics of this population.
Thrombosis Research, 2022
NHS England issued guidance for anticoagulant services during the COVID-19 pandemic including advice on the safe switching of patients on warfarin to direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), where appropriate. As DOACs require less frequent blood testing, this supported the reduction of pressures being experienced by the NHS and the lowering of the risk of virus transmission. We have previously shown that this guidance was followed by increased switching of anticoagulants to DOACs.
- Louis Fisher,
- Vicky Speed,
- Helen Curtis,
- Christopher Rentsch,
- Angel Wong,
- Anna Schultze,
- Jon Massey,
- Peter Inglesby,
- Caroline Morton,
- Marion Wood,
- Alex Walker,
- Jess Morley,
- Amir Mehrkar,
- Seb Bacon,
- George Hickman,
- Chris Bates,
- Richard Croker,
- Dave Evans,
- Tom Ward,
- Jonathan Cockburn,
- Simon Davy,
- Krishnan Bhaskaran,
- Becky Smith,
- Elizabeth Williamson,
- Will Hulme,
- Millie Green,
- Rosalind Eggo,
- Harriet Forbes,
- John Tazare,
- John Parry,
- Frank Hester,
- Sam Harper,
- Jonathan Meadows,
- Shaun O'Hanlon,
- Alex Eavis,
- Richard Jarvis,
- Dima Avramov,
- Paul Griffiths,
- Aaron Fowles,
- Nasreen Parkes,
- Ian Douglas,
- Stephen Evans,
- Liam Smeeth,
- Brian MacKenna,
- Laurie Tomlinson,
- Ben Goldacre