Journal article
A team-based approach to warfarin management in long term care: A feasibility study of the MEDeINR electronic decision support system
Abstract
BackgroundPrevious studies in long-term care (LTC) have demonstrated that warfarin management is suboptimal with preventable adverse events often occurring as a result of poor International Normalized Ratio (INR) control. To assist LTC teams with the challenge of maintaining residents on warfarin in the therapeutic range (INR of 2.0 to 3.0), we developed an electronic decision support system that was based on a validated algorithm for warfarin …
Authors
Papaioannou A; Kennedy CC; Campbell G; Stroud JB; Wang L; Dolovich L; Crowther MA; Improving Prescribing in Long Term Care Investigators
Journal
BMC Geriatrics, Vol. 10, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
12 2010
DOI
10.1186/1471-2318-10-38
ISSN
1471-2318