Screening Computer-Assisted Dosage Programs for anticoagulation with warfarin and other vitamin K-antagonists: minimum safety requirements for individual programs
Scientific and Standardization Committee Communications: On behalf of the Control of Anticoagulation Subcommittee of the Scientific and Standardization Committee of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
L Poller*, C Roberts**, S Ibrahim*, Keown M*, W Ageno+, AMHP van den Besselaar++, D Fitzmaurice¬, J Harenberg¬¬, S Kitchen^, G Lowe^^, M Moia&, G Palareti&&, A Tripodi#, AGG Turpie##, J Jespersen~
Correspondence:
Professor Leon Poller
EAA Central Facility
Faculty of Life Sciences
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PT, UK
Tel: +44 161 275 5316
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E-mail: leon.poller@manchester.ac.uk
*EAA Central Facility, The University of Manchester, Faculty of Life Sciences, Manchester, UK;
**Health Methodology Research Group, Community Based Medicine, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK;
+Ospedale di Circolo di Varese, Division of Internal Medicine, Varese, Italy;
++Department of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands;
¬Primary Care, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK;
¬¬Clinical Phamacology Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany;
^Department of Coagulation, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK;
^^Department of Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK;
&University and IRCCS Maggiore Hospital, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena Foundation, Milan, Italy;
&&Department of Angiology and Blood Coagulation “Marino Golinelli”, University Hospital S Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy;
#Angelo Bianchi Bonomi, Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, University and IRCCS Maggiore Hospital, Milan, Italy;
##McMaster Clinic, Hamilton General Hospital, Hamilton, Canada;
~Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Hospital of South West Denmark, Department for Thrombosis Research, Institute of Publich Health and University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark.