Future of Anticoagulant Therapy

Anticoagulant therapy: present and future.

Welcome to a very special issue of Seminars in Thrombosis & Hemostasis. This issue, on the topic of “Anticoagulant therapy: present and future,” is guest edited by Job Harenberg, a longtime member of the editorial board and supporter of the journal. Indeed, Dr. Harenberg most recently wrote a historical sketch for the journal around the many meetings that he organized on the anticoagulant and n...

Audit of anticoagulant therapy.

Computer assisted anticoagulant therapy.

The constantly workload increase has led to the development of Computerised Decision Support Systems (CDSS) for a better management of patient care. Many clinical situations have been investigated to verify the utility of CDSS: few have demonstrated stable effects. One area where success has been reported is the field of oral anticoagulation management. CDSS system has demonstrated to be able t...

Long-term anticoagulant therapy.

Experience with long-term anticoagulant therapy during the past seven years has been sumnmarized. This report is based on the records of 227 individuals treated as private or outpatient clinic patients for from four weeks to seven years. Where adequate laboratory facilities are available outpatient long-term therapy may be satisfactorily controlled by physicians familiar with the use of anticoa...

Long-term Anticoagulant Therapy.

Experience with long-term anticoagulant therapy during the past seven years has been sumnmarized. This report is based on the records of 227 individuals treated as private or outpatient clinic patients for from four weeks to seven years. Where adequate laboratory facilities are available outpatient long-term therapy may be satisfactorily controlled by physicians familiar with the use of anticoa...