APIXABAN in the Prevention of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation in Real-Life Setting in France SNIIRAM Study

APIXABAN in the Prevention of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation in Real-Life Setting in France SNIIRAM Study

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the APIXABAN use in the Prevention of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation in Real-Life Setting in France, data from SNIIRAM (French data base).

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient meeting inclusion criteria of the French Système national d'information inter-régimes de l'assurance maladie (SNIIR-AM)/Programme de médicalisation des systèmes d'information (PMSI) claim databases (Patient insured by the French national health insurance general scheme stricto sensu (apart from local mutualist sections)
• Patients with at least one reimbursement of AC treatment (acenocoumarol, warfarine and fluidione for VKA treatments, apixaban, dabigatran or rivaroxaban for New oral anticoagulants (NOACs)) treatments during the inclusion period
• Patients initiated with a new AC treatment during the inclusion period, either AC naive or not
• Patients aged 18 or older at their first anticoagulant initiation during the inclusion period
• Patient diagnosed with non-valvular Atrial fibrillation (AF)