Experience with INR self-management: Patient selection and complication rates

Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 801-807

  Voeller, H ^a   Dovifat, C ^a   Wegscheider, K ^b  

^a Klinik am See   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Complication rate; Selection criteria; Self management

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SELF CARE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 29744469252     PISSN: 03005860     EISSN: 14351285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-005-0304-4     Document Type: Article

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