European journal of emergency medicine : official journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine
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Anticoagulation prescription among atrial fibrillation patients managed with and without an anticoagulant initiation pathway: a cohort study.
The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians atrial fibrillation (AF) checklist advises that emergency physicians initiate anticoagulation therapy for patients with AF or flutter who are CHADS65 positive. ⋯ Use of the SAFE pathway was associated with a higher rate of anticoagulation prescription.
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Early identification of patients at risk of clinical deterioration may improve prognosis of infected patients in the emergency department (ED). Combining clinical scoring systems with biomarkers may result in a more accurate prediction of mortality than a clinical scoring system or biomarker alone. ⋯ In this prospective cohort study, suPAR and procalcitonin were associated with increased mortality in patients with either a low or high qSOFA and patients with low NEWS2.