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Profile and anticoagulation outcomes of patients on warfarin therapy in an urban hospital in Cape Town, South Africa

Author(s) -

Babatunde O. Sonuga,

Derek Hellenberg,

Clint Cupido,

Cilia Jaeger

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

african journal of primary health care and family medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.654

H-Index - 20

eISSN - 2071-2936

pISSN - 2071-2928

DOI - 10.4102/phcfm.v8i1.1032

Subject(s) - medicine , warfarin , atrial fibrillation , comorbidity , anticoagulant , oral anticoagulant , emergency medicine , pediatrics

Warfarin is the most frequently used oral anticoagulant worldwide and it is the oral anticoagulant of choice in South Africa for reducing thrombosis-related morbidity and mortality. However, the safety and efficacy of warfarin therapy depends mainly on careful monitoring and maintenance of the international normalised ratio (INR) within an optimal therapeutic range.

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