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- Title
Patient self-management of anticoagulants reduced arterial thromboembolism and adverse effects.
- Authors
Schulman, Sam
- Abstract
This article focuses on a study related to comparing self-management of oral anticoagulant therapy with clinic management. Patient self-management of oral anticoagulants resulted in similar levels of control and major bleeding and lower rates of arterial thromboembolism and death than clinic-based management. Overall, anticoagulation self-monitoring provides international normalized ratios control that is as good as, or better than, that by a conventional laboratory, is convenient for patients, and may decrease adverse outcomes.
- Subjects
ANTICOAGULANTS; HEMATOLOGIC agents; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; PATIENTS; HEMORRHAGE
- Publication
ACP Journal Club, 2005, Vol 143, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
1056-8751
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7326/acpjc-2005-143-1-008