{"doi":"10.1161/svin.121.000146","title":"Trends in the Use of Oral Anticoagulants and Associated Expenditures Among Medicaid Programs","abstract":"ral anticoagulants (OACs) are commonly prescribed to prevent ischemic stroke among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and to treat or prevent venous thromboembolism.Warfarin, a vitamin K antagonist, had been used as the primary OAC for decades but usage of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) has been increasing. 1,2This study examined national trends in the use of OAC and associated drug expenditures among state Medicaid programs. METHODSWe analyzed the State Drug Utilization Data (publicly available at https://www.medicaid.gov),which includes all outpatient drugs purchased by state Medicaid agencies.These data include details on state, drug name, National Drug Code (NDC), number of prescriptions and dollars reimbursed. Warfarin and DOACs including apixaban, edoxaban, dabigatran, and rivaroxaban were identified by NDC. 3 National totals of prescriptions and expenditures were aggregated for all 50 states and Washington, DC, by quarter from 2015Q1 to 2020Q3.","journal":"Stroke Vascular and Interventional Neurology","year":2021,"id":210412,"datarank":0.10397207708399181,"base_score":0.6931471805599453,"endowment":0.6931471805599453,"self_citation_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":1,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9557,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":572507,"name":"Swapnil Khose","orcid":"0000-0001-7614-3751","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":798931,"name":"Guoqiang Zhang","orcid":"0000-0002-4132-1690","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":798932,"name":"Trudy Millard Krause","orcid":"0000-0002-6740-4734","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":104957,"name":"Louise D. McCullough","orcid":"0000-0002-8050-1686","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":305208,"name":"Farhaan Vahidy","orcid":"0000-0002-3464-2111","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":305206,"name":"Sunil A. Sheth","orcid":"0000-0003-0602-8509","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":479483,"name":"Youngran Kim","orcid":"0000-0002-2063-5017","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":5,"raw_metadata":{"citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-07-18T23:52:12.491146Z","pmid":"41584462","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}