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Patient characteristics were not strong predictors of warfarin treatment, including components of the CHADS2 score. The median rate ratio for site-level variation of 1.31 was larger than the estimates of effect for any of the patient factors, suggesting that practice level variation explained a larger proportion of the variance in warfarin treatment than individual patient factors.
