Self-management in anticoagulant therapy--implications for the future?
van der Meer, F.J.M.
Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde 155(30-31): A3691
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-2162 PMID: 22085521 Document Number: 651332
Recent meta-analysis has demonstrated that self-management in oral anticoagulant therapy results in fewer thromboembolic complications and a decrease in mortality in comparison to conventional treatment, while the number of bleeding complications remains unchanged. We discuss the importance of these findings for the situation in the Netherlands with its specialized anticoagulation clinics and the possible consequences for the introduction of new anticoagulants like dabigatran and rivaroxaban.