Saves the questions and what to expect into your notes, next to the visit they belong to.
Keep this study
Lead
Brigham and Women's Hospital
With
Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
1. Inpatient stay with diagnosis code of DVT/PE (see Appendix A), 1/1/2010 - 9/30/2015 for which the patient has at least 365 days continuous medical and pharmacy eligibility prior and no other inpatient stays with DVT/PE diagnosis. Set discharge date as index diagnosis date. Take only the first eligible episode for a patient, if multiple.
2. Prescription fill for an anticoagulant \[generic name=dabigatran (150mg), apixaban (2.5mg, 5mg, 10mg), rivaroxaban (15mg, 20mg), edoxaban (30mg, 60mg), or warfarin\] within 30 days of and including index diagnosis date. Set earliest anticoagulant prescription as index generic and date as index rx date.
3. No anticoagulant prescription fill in the 365 days prior to index diagnosis date.
4. Continuous enrollment and use of an anticoagulant for the first 90 days including and following the index rx date, defined as no gaps in therapy \>7 days. For each patient, assign a variable to indicate whether the patient filled an anticoagulant with a different generic name as index during this period.
You may not be if
1. Any safety outcome between index diagnosis date and index rx date + 90, defined as: intracranial bleed, gastrointestinal bleed, or other major bleed.
2. Any DVT/PE between index diagnosis date and index rx date + 90.
