Shorter or longer anticoagulation to prevent recurrent venous thromboembolism: systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Published in BMJ Open on July 04, 2014

Authors

Luciane Cruz Lopes1, John Eikelboom2, Frederick A Spencer3, Elie A Akl4, Clive Kearon2, Ignacio Neumann5, Sam Schulman2, Neera Bhatnagar6, Gordon Guyatt7

Author Affiliations

1: Pharmaceutical Sciences Post graduate Course, University of Sorocaba, UNISO, Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2: Division of Hematology and Thromboembolism, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
3: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
4: Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Department of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
5: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
6: Health Sciences Library McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
7: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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