Racial differences in the utilization of oral anticoagulant therapy in heart failure: a study of elderly hospitalized patients.

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Published in J Gen Intern Med on February 01, 2000

Authors

S A Ibrahim1, C K Kwoh, D L Harper, D W Baker

Author Affiliations

1: Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Health Care Research, Department of Medicine, Louis Stokes Department of VA Medical Center, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, OH 44106-6033, USA.

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