Patients’ and physicians’ perceptions and attitudes about oral anticoagulation and atrial fibrillation: a qualitative systematic review

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• 作者：Gemma Mas Dalmau ; Elisenda Sant Arderiu…
• 关键词：Atrial fibrillation ; Oral ; anticoagulation therapy ; Perceptions ; Attitudes ; Patients ; Physicians ; Systematic Review ; Qualitative Research
• 刊名：BMC Family Practice
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：18
• 期：1
• 全文大小：751KB
• 刊物主题：General Practice / Family Medicine; Primary Care Medicine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2296
• 卷排序：18

文摘

BackgroundOral anticoagulant therapy reduces the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, but many patients are still not prescribed this therapy. The causes of underuse of vitamin K antagonists oral anticoagulants are not clear but could be related, in part, to patients’ and physicians’ perceptions and attitudes towards the benefits and downsides of this treatment. The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate and synthesize patients’ and physicians’ perceptions and attitudes towards the benefits and downsides of vitamin K antagonist, in order to explore potential factors related with its underuse.