Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 44, Issue 1 , Pages 3-11 , July 2004

Risk factors for stroke and thromboprophylaxis in atrial fibrillation: what happens in daily clinical practice? The GEFAUR-1 study

Received 16 July 2003 ,Revised 31 December 2003 ,Accepted 6 January 2004.

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 The participating investigators are listed in the Appendix.

☆☆ Author contributions: AM, CG, PL, and PG conceived and designed the study. AM supervised the conduct of the study and the data collection and was responsible for the design and codification of the data collection sheet. CG provided statistical advice on study design and the data analysis. CG, AM, and PL drafted the manuscript and take responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Presented in part as an abstract at the XXIV Congress of the European Society of Cardiology, Berlin, Germany, September 1-4, 2002.

★★ Supported by an unintentional grant of 3M-Spain, which was not involved in any other way in the development of this study and had no influence in the contents of the article.

☆☆☆ Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(04)00058-7

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.01.010

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 44, Issue 1 , Pages 3-11 , July 2004