Evaluation of patients' knowledge on warfarin in outpatient anticoagulation clinics in a teaching hospital in Qatar

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 672-677

  Khudair, Imran F ^a   Hanssens, Yolande I ^a  

^a HAMAD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN K GROUP; WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEPTIC ULCER BLEEDING; QATAR; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANTICOAGULANTS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; PATIENTS; QATAR; QUESTIONNAIRES; WARFARIN;

EID: 77958060820     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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