Education together with a preprinted sticker improves the prescribing of prophylactic enoxaparin

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1251, 2007, Pages

  Gladding, Patrick ^a   Larsen, Fiona ^a   Durrant, Hilary ^a   Black, Peter N ^a  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENOXAPARIN; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG USE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; AGED; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG LABELING; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT SELECTION; REMINDER SYSTEM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; DRUG LABELING; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; ENOXAPARIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; REMINDER SYSTEMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 34147190287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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