Objective:

To establish the demographic, clinical and therapeutic characteristics of the anticoagulated patients treated at the anticoagulation clinics of Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá (HUSVF) and Hospital Universitario San Vicente Fundación Medellin (HUFSFB), between 2015 and 2016.

Method:

A transversal retrospective descriptive study was carried out. The reference population consist in patients treated in the anticoagulation clinics of the HUSVF in Medellin and the HUFSFB in Bogotá between March 2015 to 2016. The information was taken from the clinical records of both hospitals and descriptive statistics were used for the data analysis.

Results:

A total of 502 patients were evaluated in both anticoagulation clinics. Patients’ average age in HUFSFB was 64 years while in HUSVF was 61; the main pathology that required anticoagulation was the fibrillation/auricular flutter in HUSVF (46,5%) and venous thromboembolic disease in HUFSFB (69.7%). 100% of HUSVF patients are anticoagulated using warfarin and only 23% of those in HUFSFB; the time in therapeutic range (TTR) was 69% in HUFSFB and 55% in HSVF. Re-thrombosis was presented in 3 patients in each of the institutions and the bleeding events were 7 (3.8%) in HUFSFB and 30 (9.3%) in HUSVF.

Conclusions:

The administrative differences between the two institutions are reflected in the results obtained; there is a great difference in the population, pathologies, access to services and medicines, linked to the health system of our country.

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