Journal article
Simulation-Based Education for Physicians to Increase Oral Anticoagulants in Hospitalized Elderly Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
Abstract
PURPOSE: This study was intended to determine whether a simulation-based education addressed to physicians was able to increase the proportion of hospitalized elderly with atrial fibrillation prescribed with oral anticoagulants (OACs) compared with the usual practice.
METHODS: We conducted a cluster randomized trial (from April 2015 to September 2018) on 32 Italian internal medicine and geriatric wards randomized 1:1 to intervention or control …
Authors
Franchi C; Antoniazzi S; Ardoino I; Proietti M; Marcucci M; Santalucia P; Monzani V; Mannucci PM; Nobili A; Collaborators TS-A
Journal
The American Journal of Medicine, Vol. 132, No. 8, pp. e634–e647
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
August 2019
DOI
10.1016/j.amjmed.2019.03.052
ISSN
0002-9343