Systematic review of observational studies assessing bleeding risk in patients with atrial fibrillation not using anticoagulants.

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Published in PLoS One on February 11, 2014

Authors

Luciane Cruz Lopes1, Frederick A Spencer2, Ignacio Neumann3, Matthew Ventresca4, Shanil Ebrahim5, Qi Zhou4, Neera Bhatnagar6, Sam Schulman7, John Eikelboom8, Gordon Guyatt4

Author Affiliations

1: Pharmaceutical Sciences Postgraduate Course, University of Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2: Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
3: Internal Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile ; Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
4: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
5: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ; Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ; Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America.
6: Health Sciences Library McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
7: Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ; Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
8: Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Thromboembolism, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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