Factors in Initial Anticoagulation Choice in Hospitalized Patients With Pulmonary Embolism.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite guideline recommendations to use low-molecular-weight heparins (LMWHs) or direct oral anticoagulants in the treatment of most patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE), US-based studies have found increasing use of unfractionated heparin (UFH) in hospitalized patients.

Objective

To identify barriers and facilitators of guideline-concordant anticoagulation in patients hospitalized with acute PE.

Design, setting, and participants

This qualitative study conducted semistructured interviews from February 1 to June 3, 2024, that were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed in an iterative process using reflexive thematic analysis. Interview participants were physicians in emergency medicine, hospital medicine (hospitalist), interventional cardiology, and in

SUBMITTER: Stubblefield WB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11699532 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature