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Impatient Inpatient Dosing
White RH. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. July/August 2005.
An intern increases a patient's warfarin dosage nightly based on subtherapeutic INR levels drawn each morning; after several days, the patient develops potentially life-threatening bleeding.
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