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September 2014 Br J Cardiol 2014;21:98
New NICE guidance published
BJCardio Staff
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has said that thousands of people with atrial fibrillation (AF) could be prevented from having strokes, disability or death if its new guidance is followed. It says many patients with AF are not being appropriately anticoagulated and highlights how there has not been widespread uptake of novel oral anticoagulant drugs (NOACs) which were approved by NICE in 2012. Clinical guideline 180 published in June 2014 updates and replaces the 2006 NICE clinical guideline 36. The full guidance can be found at http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/CG180 NICE Chair, Professor David Haslam writes on the
November 2002 Br J Cardiol 2002;9:567-69
Improving care for patients with heart disease: implications of the Fifth report on the provision of services for patients with heart disease
Paul Kalra, Roger Hall, John Camm
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