Patient-Reported Satisfaction and Study Drug Discontinuation: Post-Hoc Analysis of Findings from ROCKET AF

Leo Ungar1, Fatima Rodriguez2, Anne S Hellkamp3

  • 1University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA, USA. lungar@uci.edu.

Cardiology and Therapy
|August 4, 2019
PubMed
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