Accuracy of Laboratory and Portable Monitor International Normalized Ratio Determinations: Comparison With a Criterion Standard

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 155, Issue 17, 1995, Pages 1861-1867

  Kaatz, Scott S ^a   White, Richard H ^b   Hill, James ^c   Mascha, Edward ^a   Humphries, John E ^d   Becker, Daniel M ^d  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL VALUE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; WARFARIN;

EID: 0029114752     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1995.00430170053006     Document Type: Article

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