Quality of pharmacist-managed anticoagulation therapy in long-term ambulatory settings: a systematic review

BS Manzoor, WH Cheng, JC Lee… - Annals of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: To perform a systematic review to evaluate the quality of warfarin anticoagulation
control in outpatient pharmacist-managed anticoagulation services (PMAS) compared with …

Effectiveness of pharmacist-led anticoagulation management on clinical outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

K Hou, H Yang, Z Ye, Y Wang… - Journal of Pharmacy …, 2017 - journals.library.ualberta.ca
Objectives: We performed this systematic review and meta-analysis to confirm whether
patients benefit more from pharmacist-led anticoagulation management than other models …

Time in the therapeutic range for patients taking warfarin in clinical trials: useful, but also misleading, misused, and overinterpreted

JA Reiffel - Circulation, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
America (19% versus 22%–36%), more from Eastern and fewer from Western Europe (53%
versus 40%–48% in total), and a different percentage from Latin America (13% versus 6 …

Efficacy and safety of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants compared with warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation

L Friberg, J Oldgren - Open Heart, 2017 - openheart.bmj.com
Aims Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) were in pivotal randomised
controlled trials at least non-inferior to warfarin for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation, but …

Anticoagulation control in patients with ventricular assist devices

AK Boehme, SV Pamboukian, JF George… - ASAIO …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Anticoagulation control has been associated with risk of thromboembolism and hemorrhage.
Herein, we explore the relationship between anticoagulation control achieved in left …

[HTML][HTML] Time in the therapeutic range (TTR): an overly simplified conundrum

JA Reiffel - The Journal of Innovations in Cardiac Rhythm …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Anticoagulation with warfarin has been used for over 60 years; however, its administration is
fraught with difficulty since many factors can affect warfarin dosing. The concept of time in …

The Salford Lung Study: a pioneering comparative effectiveness approach to COPD and asthma in clinical trials

TE Albertson, S Murin, ME Sutter… - Pragmatic and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The Salford Lung Study (SLS) of patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) is a practical, community-based, randomized, open-label pragmatic study …

Warfarin management and outcomes in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation within an integrated health care system

JJ An, F Niu, C Zheng, N Rashid, RA Mendes… - Journal of Managed …, 2017 - jmcp.org
BACKGROUND: Warfarin is a common treatment option to manage patients with
nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) in clinical practice. Understanding current pharmacist …

Assessment of the quality of chronic anticoagulation control with time in therapeutic range in atrial fibrillation patients treated with vitamin K antagonists by hemostasis …

C Tajer, J Ceresetto, FJ Bottaro… - Clinical and Applied …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Oral anticoagulation therapy with vitamin K antagonists (VKA) such as warfarin
and acenocoumarol is recommended in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and risk factors …

Impact of baseline stroke risk and bleeding risk on warfarin international normalized ratio control in atrial fibrillation (from the TREAT-AF study)

JA Hellyer, F Azarbal, CT Than, J Fan… - The American journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Warfarin prevents stroke and prolongs survival in patients with atrial fibrillation and flutter
(AF, collectively) but can cause hemorrhage. The time in international normalized ratio (INR) …