Reviewing a Clinical Decision Aid for the Selection of Anticoagulation Treatment in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation: Applications in a US Managed Care Health Plan Database

摘要

Purpose: The Clinical Decision Aid was created to assist in selecting anticoagulant therapies for patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. The aid incorporates a patient's absolute risk for stroke and bleeding, relative stroke risk reduction, and increase in relative bleeding risk to identify the agent with the lowest net risk. We describe theoretical implications of utilizing the aid at a US managed care population level.