Patient reported receipt of medication instructions for warfarin is associated with reduced risk of serious bleeding events

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1589-1594

  Metlay, Joshua P ^a,b,c,d   Hennessy, Sean ^a,b   Localio, A Russell ^a,b   Han, Xiaoyan ^a,b   Yang, Wei ^a,b   Cohen, Abigail ^a,b   Leonard, Charles E ^a,b   Haynes, Kevin ^a,b   Kimmel, Stephen E ^a,b   Feldman, Harold I ^a,b   Strom, Brian L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Veterans Affairs Medical Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Medication safety; Patient communication

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRESCRIPTION; RISK REDUCTION; STROKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; WARFARIN;

EID: 51649101513     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-008-0708-8     Document Type: Article

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