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Real-world safety outcomes from one ongoing US study of 27,467 nonvalvular AF patients11 Results based on 15 months of data from an ongoing, 5-year postmarketing safety surveillance study to evaluate major bleeding in patients receiving XARELTO® in a real-world clinical setting. Cases of major bleeding were identified through electronic health records from the US Department of Defense database, from January 1, 2013, to March 31, 2014. RATES OF BLEEDING COMORBID PATIENTS STUDIED EVENT RATE/100 PATIENT-YEARS 20 15 87 % 10 5 0 2.86 0.08 major bleed (n=478) with comorbidities including: diabetes heart failure renal disease Mean age: 76 fatal bleed (n=14) 0.1% ICH (n=36) 1.5% GI bleed (n=423) B:14.25 in S:13 in T:14 in RESULTS ARE NOT INTENDED FOR DIRECT COMPARISON WITH CLINICAL TRIALS A validated computer database algorithm developed by Cunningham et al, which identifies bleeding-related hospitalizations from a primary discharge diagnosis, was used to identify major bleeding events in this study. The definition of major bleeding is not an exact match with the ROCKET AF trial. LIMITATIONS: This is a retrospective study and t