title: Organizing patient-centred anticoagulant therapy.
abstract: The advent of new oral anticoagulants (NOACs) is transforming the care of patients in need of anticoagulant therapy. NOACs offer the opportunity to provide patients with more effective, safer and more convenient anticoagulant therapy but there are still pitfalls and hurdles.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, KU Leuven--University of Leuven, Belgium. peter.verhamme@uzleuven.be
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Verhamme
authors.forename: Hein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Heidbuchel
mesh_terms: D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000145:classification / Q000494:pharmacology; D018890:Chemoprevention / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D006801:Humans; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D013810:Therapeutic Equivalency; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000517:prevention & control*
chemical_list: D000925:Anticoagulants