Anticoagulation management services: Entering a new era

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 327-329

  Nutescu, Edith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation clinics; Anticoagulation management services; Systematic anticoagulation management; Thrombosis programs

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; APIXABAN; DABIGATRAN; RIVAROXABAN; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULATION; BLEEDING; COST CONTROL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACIST; STROKE; THROMBOSIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS;

EID: 77950441112     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1592/phco.30.4.327     Document Type: Editorial

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