Making anticoagulant therapy safer…
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007The following documents has been produced by the National Patients Safety Agency to make anticoagulant therapy safer:
Patient safety alert (.pdf)
Patient briefing (.pdf)
Template service audit form (.doc)
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See also the following links relating to anticoagulants:
Managing your Coumadin® (Warfarin) Therapy - A Patient’s Guide [NYU Medical Centre] (.pdf)
Anticoagulation resources [anticoagulation.org.uk]
Notable resources from anticoagulation.org.uk:
- Recommendations for patients undertaking self management of oral anticoagulation (.pdf)
- Patient self-management of oral anticoagulation and external quality assessment procedure(.pdf)
- Is the international normalised ratio (INR) reliable? A trial of comparative measurements in hospital laboratory and primary care settings (.pdf)
Setting quality standards for a community pharmacist-led anticoagulant clinics (.pdf)
Chondroitin and warfarin: an interaction of note?(.pdf)
Alleged warfarin-chondroitin interaction still anecdotal (.pdf)
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