Computer aided warfarin dosing in the Swedish national quality registry AuriculA - Algorithmic suggestions are performing better than manually changed doses

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 130-134

  Grzymala Lubanski, Bartosz ^a   Själander, Sara ^a   Renlund, Henrik ^b   Svensson, Peter J ^c   Själander, Anders ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Atrial fibrillation; Computer assisted therapy; INR; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; AURICULA; BLEEDING; CODING ALGORITHM; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DRUG DOSE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MEDICATION ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEB BROWSER;

ALGORITHMS; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWEDEN; WARFARIN;

EID: 84872293345     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: 18792472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2012.11.016     Document Type: Article

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