Anticoagulation patient safety goal compliance at a university health system: methods for achieving the goal.

Ana Crystal Franco; Pamela Maxwell; Kay Green; Colleen Barthol

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Anticoagulation patient safety goal compliance at a university health system: methods for achieving the goal.

September 23, 2009

Franco AC, Maxwell P, Green K, et al. Hosp Pharm. 2010;44(9):776-781.

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This article explains how an academic health care system launched an initiative to accomplish the anticoagulation therapy National Patient Safety Goal.

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