Patients' understanding of anticoagulant therapy in a multiethnic population
Open Access
- 1 April 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
- Vol. 96 (4) , 175-179
- https://doi.org/10.1258/jrsm.96.4.175
Abstract
To investigate whether knowledge and perceptions of antithrombotic therapy differ between ethnic groups in the UK, we conducted a cross-sectional questionnaire survey of patients attending anticoagulation clinics in three Birmingham teaching hospitals. 180 consecutive patients were recruited—135 white European, 29 Indo-Asian, 16 Afro-Caribbean.Keywords
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