Starting anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation in the emergency department safely

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Family Medicine, Queen's University Faculty of Health Sciences, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• ² Department of Emergency Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• ³ Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁴ Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁶ Department of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁷ Medical School, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Medical University of Bahrain, Busaiteen, Bahrain.
• ⁸ Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada kerstin.dewit@queensu.ca.