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Sociodemographic Determinants Of Oral Anticoagulant Prescription In Patients With Atrial Fibrillations: Findings From The Pinnacle Registry Using Machine Learning, Zahra Azizi, Andrew T. Ward, Donghyun J. Lee, Sanchit S. Gad, Kanchan Bhasin, Robert J. Beetel, Tiago Ferreira, Sushant Shankar, John S. Rumsfeld, Salim S. Virani
Sociodemographic Determinants Of Oral Anticoagulant Prescription In Patients With Atrial Fibrillations: Findings From The Pinnacle Registry Using Machine Learning, Zahra Azizi, Andrew T. Ward, Donghyun J. Lee, Sanchit S. Gad, Kanchan Bhasin, Robert J. Beetel, Tiago Ferreira, Sushant Shankar, John S. Rumsfeld, Salim S. Virani
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Background: Current risk scores that are solely based on clinical factors have shown modest predictive ability for understanding of factors associated with gaps in real-world prescription of oral anticoagulation (OAC) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF).
Objective: In this study, we sought to identify the role of social and geographic determinants, beyond clinical factors associated with variation in OAC prescriptions using a large national registry of ambulatory patients with AF.
Methods: Between January 2017 and June 2018, we identified patients with AF from the American College of Cardiology PINNACLE (Practice Innovation and Clinical Excellence) Registry. We examined associations between patient …