Paper information
- Authors
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- 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
- Citation
- OpenSAFELY Collaborative, Fisher L, Speed V, Curtis HJ, Rentsch CT, Wong AYS, Schultze A, Massey J, Inglesby P, Morton CE, Wood M, Walker AJ, Morley J, Mehrkar A, Bacon S, Hickman G, Bates C, Croker R, Evans D, Ward T, Cockburn J, Davy S, Bhaskaran K, Smith B, Williamson E, Hulme W, Green A, Eggo RM, Forbes H, Tazare J, Parry J, Hester F, Harper S, Meadows J, O'Hanlon S, Eavis A, Jarvis R, Avramov D, Griffiths P, Fowles A, Parkes N, Douglas IJ, Evans SJW, Smeeth L, MacKenna B, Tomlinson L, Goldacre B. Potentially inappropriate prescribing of DOACs to people with mechanical heart valves: A federated analysis of 57.9 million patients' primary care records in situ using OpenSAFELY. Thromb Res. 2022 Mar;211:150-153. doi: 10.1016/j.thromres.2022.01.023. Epub 2022 Jan 29. PMID: 35168181.
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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.