National trends in antiarrhythmic and antithrombotic medication use in atrial fibrillation.

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Published in Arch Intern Med on January 12, 2004

Authors

Margaret C Fang1, Randall S Stafford, Jeremy N Ruskin, Daniel E Singer

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1: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. mfang@medicine.ucsf.edu

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