The cost-effectiveness of different management strategies for patients on chronic warfarin therapy

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-37

  Lafata, Jennifer Elston ^a   Martin, Susan A ^a   Kaatz, Scott ^a   Ward, Richard E ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation management; Cost effectiveness analysis; Decision analytic model; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE SIMULATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT MONITORING; PROBABILITY; SELF MONITORING; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ANTICOAGULANTS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION TREES; DRUG MONITORING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MARKOV CHAINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WARFARIN;

EID: 0033984098     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2000.01239.x     Document Type: Article

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