Comparison of an age adjusted warfarin loading protocol with empirical dosing and Fennerty's protocol

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 731-736

  Roberts, Greg W ^a   Druskeit, T ^b   Jorgensen, L E ^b   Wing, L M H ^c   Gallus, A S ^c   Miller, C ^c   Cosh, D ^a   Eaton, V S ^c  

^a REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Elderly; Loading dose; Overanticoagulation; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

AGE; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DOSE CALCULATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNATIONAL STANDARD UNIT; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0032707663     PISSN: 00048291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1999.tb01623.x     Document Type: Article

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