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Outpatient Management of Warfarin TherapyComparison of Computer‐Predicted Dosage Adjustment to Skilled Professional Care

 

作者: Richard White,   Dennis Mungall,  

 

期刊: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring  (OVID Available online 1991)
卷期: Volume 13, issue 1  

页码: 46-50

 

ISSN:0163-4356

 

年代: 1991

 

出版商: OVID

 

关键词: Anticoagulation;Warfarin;Computer

 

数据来源: OVID

 

摘要:

In a prospective, randomized clinical trial, we compared the accuracy of warfarin dosage-adjustments predictions using a computer program to the skill of an experienced anticoagulation nurse-specialist. The computer program predicts the steady state warfarin dose by applying Bayesian forecasting techniques to a mathematical model of the dynamic pharmacologic response to warfarin. Fifty patients who were receiving chronic warfarin therapy and who required a dosage adjustment because their prothrombin time was ≥2 s away from their target prothrombin time were enrolled. The baseline characteristics of each group were similar, including the mean of the absolute value of the differences between initial prothrombin times and corresponding target prothrombin times. After a new warfarin dose was predicted, the prothrombin time was measured at least 7 days after dosage adjustment. Overall, the results in each group were comparable. There was no significant difference between groups and the mean of the absolute value of the differences between final prothrombin times and target prothrombin times, nor was there a difference in the proportion of patients who had a final prothrombin time within 2 s of the target prothrombin time. We conclude that the accuracy of warfarin dosage adjustments made using computer modeling is comparable to the skill of an anticoagulation nurse-specialist.

 

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