Evaluating equality in prescribing Novel Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs) in England: The protocol of a Bayesian small area analysis

Ehsan Rezaei-Darzi; Parinaz Mehdipour; Mariachiara Di Cesare; Farshad Farzadfar; Shadi Rahimzadeh; Lisa Nissen; Alireza Ahmadvand

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0246253

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Evaluating equality in prescribing Novel Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs) in England: The protocol of a Bayesian small area analysis

Ehsan Rezaei-Darzi,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Centre, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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Parinaz Mehdipour,

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Centre, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1608-8487

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Mariachiara Di Cesare,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, School of Science and Technology, Middlesex University London, London, United Kingdom
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Farshad Farzadfar,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Centre, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8288-4046

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Shadi Rahimzadeh,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, School of Science and Technology, Middlesex University London, London, United Kingdom
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Lisa Nissen,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Alireza Ahmadvand

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: a.ahmadvand@griffith.edu.au

Affiliation School of Medicine, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Evaluating equality in prescribing Novel Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs) in England: The protocol of a Bayesian small area analysis

Ehsan Rezaei-Darzi,
Parinaz Mehdipour,
Mariachiara Di Cesare,
Farshad Farzadfar,
Shadi Rahimzadeh,
Lisa Nissen,
Alireza Ahmadvand

Published: February 4, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246253

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