Why the study?
Does a standardized training course for self-management of oral anticoagulant therapy result in accurate self-assessed INR values compared to laboratory assays?
Population
50 patients undergoing long-term oral anticoagulant therapy, preselected according to the guidelines of the…
Design
Cohort
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Self-assessed INRs may underestimate lab values post-training; leaves open need for bias-adjusted targets before routine anticoagulation self-management.
Does a standardized training course for self-management of oral anticoagulant therapy result in accurate self-assessed INR values compared to laboratory assays?
Standardized training for self-management of oral anticoagulation is feasible and yields good correlation with laboratory INR, though older patients require more theoretical training and self-assessed INRs may be slightly lower than venous samples.
Mörsdorf et al. (1999) studied this question.
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