Resource consumption and management associated with monitoring of warfarin treatment in primary health care in Sweden

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Andersson, Stina ^a   Björholt, Ingela ^b,c   Nilsson, Gunnar H ^d   Krakau, Ingvar ^d,e  

^a ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c Nordic Health Economic Research   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e Department of Medicine ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN; CONSENSUS; DELPHI STUDY; DRUG MONITORING; ECONOMICS; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; PATIENT CARE; PROCEDURES; TASK PERFORMANCE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UTILIZATION;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CONSENSUS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; DRUG MONITORING; EPISODE OF CARE; FAMILY PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SWEDEN; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WARFARIN;

EID: 33751216749     PISSN: 14712296     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-7-67     Document Type: Article

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