Simulation-Based Education for Physicians to Increase Oral Anticoagulants in Hospitalized Elderly Patients with Atrial Fibrillation.

Affiliation

Department of Neuroscience, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: [Email]

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Atrial fibrillation,Cluster randomized trial,Internal medicine and geriatric wards,Older people,Oral anticoagulants,SIM-AF trial,Simulation-based education,