Estimating Adherence Based on Prescription or Dispensation Information: Impact on Thresholds and Outcomes. A Real-World Study With Atrial Fibrillation Patients Treated With Oral Anticoagulants in Spain

• Main Authors: Isabel Hurtado-Navarro (Author), Aníbal García-Sempere (Author), Clara Rodríguez-Bernal (Author), Yared Santa- (Author), Salvador Peiró (Author), Gabriel Sanfélix-Gimeno (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: To estimate drug exposure, Proportion of Days Covered (PDC) and percentage of patients with PDC ≥ 80% from a cohort of atrial fibrillation patients initiating oral anticoagulant (OAC) treatment. We employed three different approaches to estimate PDC, using either data from prescription an...