Anticoagulation services: Quality improvement directions - Pursuing a certification process

Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 153-156

  Oertel, Lynn B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Certification; Quality improvement; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLEEDING; CERTIFICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MEDICINE; NURSING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STANDARDIZATION; TEAMWORK; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CERTIFICATION; EDUCATION, CONTINUING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0032960096     PISSN: 09295305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008837621067     Document Type: Short Survey

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