Who is responsible for the care of patients treated with warfarin therapy?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 190, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 674-677

  Lowthian, Judy A ^a   Diug, Basia O ^a   Evans, Sue M ^a   Maxwell, Ellen L ^b   Street, Alison M ^c   Piterman, Leon ^a   McNeil, John J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MELBOURNE PATHOLOGY   (Australia)

^c Haemostasis Thrombosis Unit   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT INFORMATION; PERCEPTION; PHARMACIST; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPONSIBILITY; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WARFARIN;

EID: 68349117319     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02634.x     Document Type: Article

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