European Concerted Action on Anticoagulation. Quality Assessment of the CoaguChek Mini and TAS PT-NC Point-of-Care Whole-Blood Prothrombin Time Monitors | Zendy

L. Poller | Zendy; Michelle Keown | Zendy; Nikhil Chauhan | Zendy; A.M.H.P. van den Besselaar | Zendy; Armando Tripodi | Zendy; Caroline Shiach | Zendy; Jørgen Jespersen | Zendy

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European Concerted Action on Anticoagulation. Quality Assessment of the CoaguChek Mini and TAS PT-NC Point-of-Care Whole-Blood Prothrombin Time Monitors

Author(s) -

L. Poller,

Michelle Keown,

Nikhil Chauhan,

A.M.H.P. van den Besselaar,

Armando Tripodi,

Caroline Shiach,

Jørgen Jespersen

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

clinical chemistry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705

H-Index - 218

eISSN - 1530-8561

pISSN - 0009-9147

DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2003.019653

Subject(s) - plasma , prothrombin time , point of care , chemistry , coumarin , blood plasma , chromatography , medicine , surgery , physics , pathology , biochemistry , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics

International Normalized Ratios (INRs) for prothrombin time obtained with the CoaguChek Mini and TAS (RapidPointCoag) PT-NC systems are markedly different and also differ from the "true" INR. There is therefore a need for local quality assessment (QA) of the two systems.

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